Putting Students First: Promoting Lives of Purpose and Meaning

Autor/inn/en	Braskamp, Larry; Trautvetter, Lois Calian; Ward, Kelly
Titel	Putting Students First: Promoting Lives of Purpose and Meaning
Quelle	In: About Campus, 13 (2008) 1, S.26-32 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-4822
DOI	10.1002/abc.244
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Holistic Approach; Student Development; Faculty; College Environment; College Faculty; College Administration; College Curriculum; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Holistischer Ansatz; Academic Staff; Lehrkörper; Hochschulumwelt; Fakultät; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Collegestudent
Abstract	How can higher education faculty, staff, and administrators create campus environments that guide students in their development within chosen disciplines and careers as well as in ways that contribute to a common good? How can they help students find a sense of calling in life? What does it mean to cultivate a sense of purpose in students? Are there ways to simultaneously prepare students for disciplinary excellence, a successful career, and a meaningful life? As the authors report in their recent book "Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully," many campuses are exploring these questions in order to look critically at the educational process and take direct steps toward preparing students for a life that encompasses a sense of purpose and meaning. By examining how the campuses in their study organize and situate themselves to meet this goal, the authors discovered that the answers to such questions call for a holistic approach to student development. Such an approach, in turn, calls for a whole campus of whole persons to develop whole students. In this article, the authors offer their 4C framework (culture, curriculum, cocurriculum, community) and examples from some campuses in their study to help all educators--faculty, staff, and administrators alike--consider how to create campus environments that help students develop lives of meaning and purpose. (Contains 8 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10