Reflecting on the introductions, what seem to be central patterns, themes, and principles in what students said made the greatest impact on them? Lift general concepts from the specific stories. Beyond the characteristics of our class and their particular stories (check the attached file), what categories and principles can you extrapolate about what changes as people develop, what conditions precipitate change, and what process(es) might link the conditions and the changes? Please restrict your analysis to the material from the introductions.
The papers will be graded based on the following criteria (from most basic to most advanced):
Coherence (clear writing, structure, and arguments)
Ties of “theory” to “data” (your analytic comments to class stories)
Synthesis (patterns, commonalities/differences, outliers)
Analysis (themes, processes, abstract concepts, theoretical comments)
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Course note
What is student development?
Student development is the application of the principles of human growth in the context of higher education. The applications of the principles of human growth in the context of higher education. It is used interchangeably to refer to the process of growth and change, the outcome of growth and change, what a developed person is, the intervention strategy intending to facilitate growth and change, and even some times, said a Minister of Offices in Services, charged with the responsibilities to the development of program. It’s like the office of Dean and Student Development.
Why student development?
To understand and assist human formation, for the sake of individual and communal flourishing. For interconnection.
Stories shared by the prof:
At the end of a winter break, a parent called me, raving about the fact that their first-year student came back after her semester, different. “I sent you a perfectly wholesome young girl, and she came home a cigarette smoking lesbian.”
There is a recent study, in which students were texted and prompted to do audio dialogue recordings about their experience as a first-generation low-income students at selective colleges. 80 students received the prompt “please share something that has affected the way you think about yourself”. And a student said, “the recording is a little under 5min, it that okay?”
Many students start college with this formula:
Step 1 – Figure out what everyone else is doing, how the majority of people like to portray their own identity, and how everyone else talks, dresses, behaves, etc.
Step 2 – Do exactly that. Even if you do not necessarily agree with it.
Step 3 – Do all those things so often that yu actually start to believe that is how you feel and think how you should behave.
Here is why we do this:
That those involved in student affairs, teaching, or counseling work will not only understand student development but will also be able to specify the conditions necessary to promote it, in deciding how to counsel, teach, or design educational practice.
Theories are organized stories of some phenomenon. Theories, like you and me, exist in historical, social, and cultural context.
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