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ERIC Number: EJ791376
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1086-4822
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Beyond Seat Time and Student Satisfaction: A Curricular Approach to Residential Education
Kerr, Kathleen G.; Tweedy, James
About Campus, v11 n5 p9-15 Nov-Dec 2006
As residential institutions summon greater resources and seek new strategies to encourage civic engagement, character building, and citizenship development among students, they too often overlook a potentially powerful asset. Residence halls, physically designed to provide students with direct access to personal differences and multiple occasions for sustained dialogue, represent an important setting for delivering a curriculum focused on citizenship development. Few places in society allow for such close contact with peers and such profound opportunities to reflect on relationships with others. Residence hall living offers a powerful opportunity to engage young adults in learning that will improve the quality of both their campus and their adult lives. The challenge on residential campuses is to create living-learning environments that fully engage students in meeting desired learning outcomes. At the University of Delaware, as at many other institutions, a singularly important outcome in the residential setting is citizenship. This article discusses the University's development of a peer-reviewed curricular approach for citizenship education that determines success by how much students learn. (Contains 7 notes.)
Jossey Bass. Available from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774. Tel: 800-825-7550; Tel: 201-748-6645; Fax: 201-748-6021; e-mail: subinfo@wiley.com; Web site: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2824/browse/?type=JOURNAL
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Delaware
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