| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 教育研究所 === 93 === The main purpose of this research is to expose the motivation of the mature women students to return to higher education, the learning experience on campus and the meanings they give to their education. Interviews were conducted with 8 women who are studying in higher education.
The followings are some major findings of this research. Firstly, the motiva-tion of the reentry women to school based on the four factors: family, work, individ-ual and cultural. And the cultural factor, pursuing the degree and certification, is distinctive for Taiwan’s mature women students in higher education.
Secondly, those women as mature students face particular difficulties due to their role and position in family and society, and they develop three kinds of strate-gies to overcome the obstacles they encountered. And by interviewing, we learn that mature women students didn’t ask for help but prefer to solve learning difficul-ties by themselves in the process of learning.
Moreover, through returning to higher education, we could look at the meaning of higher education on three parts: personal change, the effect on family and work. The mature women students felt they had become much more expert, confident and they experienced the gender consciousness emerged. The process of studying itself also could be shared with their husbands and children, and it could lead their hus-bands to study, and these mature women students would be role models for their children. Besides, the mature women students could promote the working effi-ciency and lead colleagues to reentry to school. However, it also caused some negative effect, such as increasing conflict with partners and reducing quality on working.
Finally, researchers make some suggestions for higher education institution and mature women students.
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