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The second edition of Student Development in College offers higher education professionals a clear understanding of the developmental challenges facing today's college students. Thoroughly revised and updated, this edition includes new integrative theories of student development, expanded coverage of social identity theories, a targeted focus on higher education-related research, a current review of student development research and application, and reconceptualization of typology theories as a way to understand individual differences. (From the Publisher)
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Many scholarly visions of morality in higher education suggest that moral instruction should deal primarily with a person’s professional or political identity. In contrast, Glanzer and Ream argue that a more wholistic moral education takes place within a university committed to a tradition that can set forth a comprehensive ideal for the school and its students about human well-being. (From the Publisher)
A 1000 word essay in response to a Call for Papers: “What do you have your students do during a class session when you cannot be present?"
A 1000 word essay in response to a Call for Papers: “What do you have your students do during a class session when you cannot be present?"
One page Teaching Tactic: students reflect on their reading practices for class.
One page Teaching Tactic: students learn about Lutheranism by doing historical research of local congregations.
One page Teaching Tactic: students reflect on the writing rubric used to grade their writing, in an online or hybrid course.
M.Div. programs sequence curriculum in order to cumulatively build competencies for wise, faithful, reflective, appropriate and effective ministerial practices. That is why the introductory preaching course typically is positioned somewhere near the middle of the program. The author of this article discovered that students who, in the semester immediately preceding the introductory preaching course, were apprenticed in the art of critical theological reflection on previously preached sermons entered the introductory course more eager, with more finely attuned expectation levels, and with anxiety levels that promoted rather than hampered learning.
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