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Bloomquist, Candace D.; Dudasko, Jacqulyn; Ebersole, Lee; Holtz, Lydia – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
Interdisciplinary learning does not just happen. One of the great challenges facing interdisciplinary programs is figuring out how to gain collective clarity around program identity (values, principles, and purpose) and make connections between mission-based curricular and co-curricular activities that support interdisciplinary learning for…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Extracurricular Activities, College Students, Leadership Training
Vissing, Yvonne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
As students compete for college admission, some are tempted by invitations to join honor societies that promise learning opportunities, scholarships, and a leg up in the college admission process. Yvonne Vissing explains how these organization target millions of students each year, encouraging them to purchase "opportunities" that fail…
Descriptors: Honor Societies, College Admission, Deception, National Organizations
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Estes, Steven G.; Germain, Jesse – Quest, 2016
Academic disciplines are vulnerable in the 21st century to the forces Barnett called supercomplexity, and we argue that academic societies such as the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education are especially well positioned to prepare 21st century scholars to respond to contemporary changes in the disciplines and in institutions of…
Descriptors: Honor Societies, Professional Associations, Movement Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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Feingold, Ronald S.; Estes, Steven G. – Quest, 2016
This article analyzes various issues related to a professional society's having greater influence on governmental, societal, and global issues. Analysis of association/society missions and goals, support for enhanced connections with other groups and collaboration to other disciplines through scholarly research projects, plus greater relevance and…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Institutional Role, Honor Societies, Institutional Mission
Thomas, Reuben J.; McFarland, Daniel A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2010
Adolescent voluntary associations are particularly well positioned in the life course to encourage voting as youth become full citizens. Extracurriculars socialize students into voting by habituating them to civic engagement and by connecting them to politically engaged cultures. We establish this argument by testing the effects of high school…
Descriptors: Voting, Ideology, Young Adults, Adolescents
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Attanucci, Jane S. – Journal of Moral Education, 2004
Parent-teacher relations are often characterized as highly conflictual in the educational literature, with scant empirical evidence of how the disagreements occur in everyday talk. Close analysis of a teacher's account of an intense conflict with a student's mother over the National Honor Society grounds the abstract discourses of merit and…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, High School Students, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship