Certificates of Failure Given by Colleges: Yes, Really

Autor/in	Gross, Karen
Titel	Certificates of Failure Given by Colleges: Yes, Really
Quelle	In: New England Journal of Higher Education, (2019) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-5978
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Academic Failure; Educational Certificates; College Students; Colleges; Reputation; Academic Achievement; Success; Self Efficacy; Trauma; Resilience (Psychology); Low Achievement; Student Needs; College Readiness; Vermont + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Schulzeugnis; Collegestudent; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Schulleistung; Erfolg; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung
Abstract	There have been articles about the competitiveness of elite colleges and universities and the need to provide courses or partial courses or seminars in failure. The idea is legitimizing failure; it happens to everyone after all. But, since some college students have never experienced failure, the colleges need to include instruction on how to fail. Some even provide certificates of failure at the beginning or end of the courses. In this article, Karen Gross explains why certificates of failure are unwelcome recognition since failure is evident in lives being lived, and especially since the focus of certificates of failure applies to such a narrow segment of college students who have been surrounded by failure of every sort from food scarcity, parental absence, incarceration, addiction, and homelessness. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	New England Board of Higher Education. 45 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111. Tel: 617-357-9620; Fax: 617-338-1577; e-mail: nejhe@nebhe.org; Web site: https://nebhe.org/nejhe/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01