Browsing by Subject "Elämänkulku"

In Finland, no matter what the person’s upper secondary education is, has a right to study in university. Still, it is rare to apply from vocational school to university. For that reason, the phenomenon needs to be examined more clearly. In this thesis the aim is to examine how the university students, who’s earlier educations are vocational education, got interested of university and how they describe their studying in university. The focus is to find out what kind of meanings they give to their life course and what kind of stories they tell. The thesis was done in 2018 and six students participated. The material was collected by narrative interview and the research results were analysed by using narrative thematic analyse method. The focus of the analysis was to examine interviewee’s stories about those moments that they thought was meaningful in getting interested of university. The research results were showing that in the student’s life course had happen some specific moments that were starting to move they closer to university. Those specific moments in their life course did brought their lives to a point that they got interested to study in university. The results were also showing that their road to university has had many different phases and some sad moments too. Students also told that they had felt being outsider because of their educational background and they had doubted how they are going to perform in the studies. The results of the research were found to be consistent with theories that were underlying this research. Especially the Levinson's life course theory of the eras and transitions were part of the results of this study too.