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Ian F. McNeely – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
Student development theory (SDT) is a diverse corpus of academic and popular psychology with real-world application to the maturation of college and university students. It originated during the campus upheavals of the 1960s as part of a collective effort to reconcile restive students to mass higher education and modern technological society.…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Colleges, College Students, Student Development
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Darren Pierre; Allison Dunn – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2024
Students learn how to be a leader and how to develop their leadership capacity as they participate in shared experiences or learning communities, many of which are facilitated by student affairs professionals through campus activities programs. For large numbers of college students, their first learning community, and subsequent path to future…
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Student Leadership, Leadership Training
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Candy T. Y. Ho; Michael J. Stebleton – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Inspired by a Tolkien quote, "Not All Who Wander Are Lost," the authors introduce the concept of "career wandering" in the context of undergraduate student development. Proposing an alternative to traditional linear career trajectories, we conceptualize a dynamic approach that embraces nonlinear paths, indecision, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Exploration, Decision Making, Student Development
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Antonio Duran; Elisa S. Abes; D-L Stewart; Susan R. Jones – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
The study of student development has long been considered a cornerstone of the higher education and student affairs (HESA) profession. However, perspectives on what constitutes student development have evolved as scholars continuously embrace more critical frameworks to implicate systems of power and oppression--what scholars have termed the third…
Descriptors: Student Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Student Personnel Services
Megan Eileen Loibl – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education has operated in silos of faculty in academic affairs and staff in student affairs for decades with little intentional integration. Initiatives aimed at collaboration tend to draw clear lines and reinforce the perceptions of faculty as "thinkers" and staff as "doers." In the headwinds facing higher education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, School Personnel, Catholic Schools, Religious Colleges
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Emma Ní Chinnéide; Aaron Reynolds; Zahra Ahmed; Myooran Canagaratnam – Pastoral Care in Education, 2024
Many teachers, pastoral care staff, counsellors, psychologists and others from related disciplines who support children and young people's (CYP's) personal, social and emotional development are concerned by declining well-being and the increased demand for pastoral care and counselling for students with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, College Students