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The university experience of students with free tuition in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

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Vol. 29 No. 56 (2021): Octubre

Abstract

This paper is centered on the university experience of thirteen students who are beneficiaries of free tuition in highly selective universities during the first online semester of 2020, within the framework of the actions taken in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. These students had been previously interviewed, between 2018 and 2019, which allows establishing a comparative perspective. The findings show that the academic experience has been even more complex in comparison to their previous situation, since distance learning modality has implied a process of adaptation with limited resources, a greater dedication to their academic activities and a limited peer relationship that deepens the need of individual management of university learning. In this context, it is evident that the institutional supports for these students are struggling in their processes of readaptation to these new conditions, making the effect of individuation even deeper during their university experience out-of-the-classroom. Finally, the most prominent problematic nodes of the socio-educational trajectories of these male and female young people are identified; from here, we suggest initiatives of complementary policies with a larger impact on the context of the new socio-educational setting generated by the sanitary emergency.

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students, higher education, free tuition education, COVID-19

Author Biographies

Carolina Álvarez Valdés, Universidad Diego Portales

Doctora© en Educación, Universidad Alberto Hurtado-Universidad Diego Portales. Correo electrónico: caroalvarezvaldes@gmail.com. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-5072

Leandro Sepúlveda, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Académico Facultad de Educación, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9173-7275. Correo electrónico: lesepulv@uahurtado.cl

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Álvarez Valdés, C., & Sepúlveda, L. (2021). The university experience of students with free tuition in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Última Década, 29(56), 176–212. Retrieved from https://auroradechile.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/65236
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