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Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
Bass, Dorothy C., editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
With its ecumenical perspectives and its comprehensive consideration of Christian practices, this is a fitting volume to inaugurate Jossey-Bass's new Religion in Practice series. The volume's editor, Dorothy Bass, a United Church of Christ minister and Director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, identifies the book's audience as those who seek a way of life rich in faith and integrity....
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Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X
Beaudoin, Tom
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
Reveals the deep and pervasive search for meaning that haunts Generation X. This book is must reading for anyone who would understand the spirituality of young people at the turn of a new millennium. Robert A. Ludwig, author of Reconstructing Catholicism for a New Generation In Virtual Faith, Beaudoin explores fashion, music videos, and cyberspace concluding that his generation has fashioned a theology radically different from,...
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Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students
Leamnson, Robert
Stylus, Sterling, VA
1999
From the Publisher
Here is a compelling read for every teacher in higher education who wants to refresh or reexamine his or her classroom practice.
Building on the insights offered by recent discoveries about the biological basis of learning, and on his own thought-provoking definitions of teaching, learning and education, the author proceeds to the practical details of instruction that teachers are most interested in the things that...
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Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years
Perry, William G., Jr.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, FL
1970
From the Publisher
Since its original publication in 1970, this landmark book by William Perry has remained the cornerstone of much of the student development research that followed. Using research conducted with Harvard undergraduates over a fifteen-year period, Perry derived an enduring framework for characterizing student development - a scheme so accurate that it still informs and advances investigations into student development across genders...
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Motivation from Within: Approaches for Encouraging Faculty and Students to Excel
Theall, Michael, editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
Motivation is not something one "does to" someone else--good motivational practice requires that we engage others in a common quest
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"On the Uses of a Liberal Education as Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students"
Edmundson, Mark
Harper's Magazine (Sept. 1997): 39-49
1997
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"Acknowledging the Learning Styles of Diverse Student Populations"
Anderson, James A., and Maurianne Adams
in Teaching for Diversity (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992), 19-33
1992
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Transforming Campus Life: Reflections on Spirituality & Religious Pluralism
Miller, Vachel W. and Merle M. Ryan, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
How can campus life become more hospitable to the human spirit? This book invites everyone concerned with the quality and meaning of campus life to engage in new conversations about the spiritual and religious dimensions of diversity, leadership, student development, and learning. This book challenges conventions in higher education that neglect religious identity and spiritual exploration while perpetuating disconnection, competition,...
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How College Affects Students, Volume 2, A Third Decade of Research
Pascarella, Ernest T. and Patrick T. Terenzini
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2005
From the Publisher
How College Affects Students, Volume 2 is the long awaited sequel to the landmark work that was first published in 1991. Offers the most comprehensive resource available on what is known about the effect of college on students. In this book, Pascarella and Terenzini provide current information and empirical research from the decade since their first book was published which distills what is know about how students change and...
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"Turning Water into Wine: Giving Remote Texts Full Flavor for the Audience of Friends"
Gregory, Marshall
College Teaching 53, no. 3 (2005): 95-98
2005
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Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom
Dalke, Anne French
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Dalke brings together a collection of accounts written by herself, students and colleagues. These are incorporated into seven chapters corresponding to the seven stages of Dalke's reflection about teaching and learning in the liberal arts classroom. The text explores the evolution of Dalke's approach to teaching; Dalke's decision to redesign her classes using the model of the Quaker Meeting for Business; difficulties she faced...
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Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue
Nash, Robert J.
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
This book argues that American colleges and universities need to enlarge their understanding of pluralism and multiculturalism by sponsoring open, challenging, spiritually and educationally revitalizing conversations among students about genuine religious difference. Although religious difference is a pivotal component of cultural pluralism, too often today it gets ignored, marginalized, or sugar-coated in higher education....
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Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice
Hoge, Dean R., William D. Dinges, Mary Johnson, Juan L. Gonzales, Jr.
University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN
2001
From the Publisher
"Leaders of the American Catholic community want to and need to reach out to young adults. But effective ministry to young adults depends on an understanding of the attitudes and the needs of the current generation of Catholics in their 20s and 30s. This is why Dean Hoge, William Dinges, Mary Johnson, and Juan Gonzales began their study of young adult Catholics. How do they actually live their Catholicism? Are they alienated...
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"Religion in Southern Culture: Classroom Notes"
Lippy, Charles
Journal of Southern Religion 5 (2002)
2002
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Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America
Sacks, Peter
Open Court, Chicago, IL
1996
From the Publisher
This is an incredible, amusing, horrifying, yet true story, in which all names have been changed to protect the guilty. It tells how the author, a journalist turned college professor, came face to face with Generation X: jaded, un-achieving, highly demanding yet lacking any respect for standards or intelligence. These insouciant scholars wore bored looks, ample attitudes, and reversed baseball caps. They expected to earn top...
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"I Won't Learn from You": And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
Kohl, Herbert R.
New Press, New York, NY
1995
From the Publisher
"I won't learn from you" is Herb Kohl's now-classic essay about the phenomenon of "not-learning," or refusing to learn, which takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mindset. Available in book form for the first time, "I Won't Learn from You" serves here as a starting point for four new, groundbreaking essays by one of the country's leading...
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Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom
Svinicki, Marilla
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2004
From the Publisher
While there is much available research and theory about learning and motivation, until now there has been no resource that translates esoteric findings into everyday language and examples that can be readily applied in college classrooms. This book brings the findings and theories of educational psychology to classroom faculty, helping them to adopt a scholarly approach to understanding their students' learning problems.
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Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development
Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2001
From the Publisher
What impact does a college education have on students' careers and personal lives after they graduate? Do they consider themselves well prepared for the complexities, demands and ambiguities of contemporary society? What can we learn from their stories to improve the college learning experience?
This ground-breaking book extends a unique longitudinal study of 101 male and female college students started by the author...
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Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education
Reay, Diane, Miriam E. David, and Stephen Ball
Trentham Books, Sterling, VA
2005
From the Publisher
"Degrees of Choice provides a sophisticated account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an elite to a mass system has been accompanied by much political rhetoric about widening access, achievement-for-all and meritocratic equalisation." This book gives a full and different picture, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to...
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Promoting Reasonable Expectations: Aligning Student and Institutional Views of the College Experience
Miller, Thomas E., Barbara E. Bender, John H. Schuh, and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2005
From the Publisher
In this important resource, leading figures in the field of student affairs examine the key issue of student expectations of college, then contrast them with the real experiences of students. The book identifies strategies for addressing the disjunctions between expectation and experience. Sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the book is intended as the starting point for campus discussions...
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Thinking: the Foundation of Critical and Creative Learning in the Classroom
Boostrom, Robert
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
What might a school that wholeheartedly values thinking look like? How can we encourage students to be active learners instead of passive recipients of knowledge? In this engaging book, Boostrom invites readers to think about the ways in which the practice of teaching unintentionally promotes nonthinking.
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"Understanding the Study of Religion in Undergraduate Programs of Religious Studies as Religious Education"
Bowman, Lorna
Religious Education 101, no. 2 (2006): 143-146
2006
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Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Smith, Christian with Melinda Lundquist Denton
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
"Soul Searching tells the definitive story of the religious and spiritual lives of contemporary American teenagers. It reports the findings of the National Study of Youth and Religion, the largest and most detailed study of teenagers and religion ever undertaken. Based on a nationwide telephone survey of teens and their parents, as well as in-depth face-to-face interviews with more than 250 of the survey respondents, Soul Searching...
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Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully
Braskamp, Larry M., Lois Calian Trautvetter and Kelly Ward
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2006
From the Publisher
Society is calling for higher education to take more responsibility for helping students find purpose and meaning in life. In this book, the authors argue that colleges should purposefully invest in students in ways that will foster their holistic development by recognizing and building on students' purpose in life, intellectually, spiritually, and morally. By using the "4C framework" culture, curriculum, cocurriculum, and...
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Teaching to Promote Intellectual and Personal Maturity: Incorporating Students' Worldviews and Identities into the Learning Process
Baxter Magolda, Marcia B., editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
Revealing that it is not what students think, but rather how they think that is important to the learning process, the contributors to this issue explore the full-range of cognitive and emotional dimensions that influence how individuals learn and they describe teaching practices for building on these to help students develop intellectually and personally. They examine how students' unique understanding of their individual experience,...
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"Teaching Theology Students Who Don't Know Aristotle from Aquinas"
McMurtrie, Beth
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2000
2000
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Inspiring Students: Case Studies in Motivating the Learner
Fallows, Stephen and Kemal Ahmet, editors
Stylus (Kogan Page), London, UK
1999
From the Publisher
This book looks specifically at the problems of teaching students in higher education taking courses outside their main area of interest. This book brings together an international collection of case studies from North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK in which practicing university teachers describe strategies which they have adopted to inspire their students. Each case study is presented in a way which enables the...
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"A Model for Student Success: Critical Thinking and 'At Risk' Students"
Osborne, Randall E.
The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 1, no. 1 (2000): 1-7
2000
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"Social Class and Student Learning"
Rhem, James
The National Teaching and Learning Forum 7, no. 5 (1998): 1-4
1998
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Making Sense of the Institutional Mission: Student Cultures at an Evangelical University: A Dissertation
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The Life of the Mind: A Christian Perspective
Williams, Clifford
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
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Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
Borgmann, Albert
Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, MI
2003
From the Publisher
We live in a culture defined and sustained by technology. Usually we equate this access to technology with opportunity, affluence, even happiness: the good life. Albert Borgmann's Power Failure raises some crucial, if disconcerting, questions: If technology liberates us, exactly what kind of liberation does it promise? Do we really feel free? Are we prospering, and by what definition?
Borgmann looks at the relationship...
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Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference
Komives, Susan R., Nance Lucas and Timothy R. McMahon
John Wiley & Sons Inc., San Francisco
2007
From the Publisher
This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors' work in the field. The second edition contains expanded...
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Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be
Schwehn, Mark R. and Bass, Dorothy C. editors
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI
2006
From the Publisher
Leading Lives That Matter draws together a wide range of texts---including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy---offering challenge and insight if you're thinking about what to do with your life. Instead of prescribing advice, Schwehn and Bass approach the vocational process as an ongoing conversation. They include in this conversation some of Western tradition's best writings on human life---its meaning, purpose, and significance---ranging...
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Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter
Kuh, George D., Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt, and associates
Jossey-Bass Publisheing
2005
From the Publisher
This book describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of schools have used to promote student success, and shows how other schools can use them to improve student success in their context. Based on the Project DEEP (Documenting Effective Educational Practices) study, this book will provide concrete examples of what different types of institutions can do to help different types of students succeed in college...
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Teaching and Learning in College Introductory Religion Courses
Walvoord, Barbara E.
Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA
2008
From the Publisher
Introductory courses in theology and religion are taught at most colleges and universities across the US and UK. From public to private, non-sectarian to faith-based institutions, theology courses fulfill humanities general education requirements, and provide a foundational education for students intending further theological study. This book describes the best and most effective ways of teaching these courses. Offering practical,...
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled-and More Miserable Than Ever Before
Twenge, Jean M.
Free Press, New York
2006
From the Publisher
Called "The Entitlement Generation" or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" -- those born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s -- are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious.
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Inside the Undergraduate Experience: The University of Washington's Study of Undergraduate Learning
Beyer, Catharine Hoffman, Gerald M. Gillmore and Andrew T. Fisher
Anker Publishing Company, Inc., now part of Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, San Francisco, CA
2007
From the Publisher
The University of Washington s Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW SOUL) tracked 304 entering freshmen and transfer students as they moved through their college experience from fall 1999 to spring 2003. Unparalleled in its scope, this longitudinal study focused on six areas of learning: writing, critical thinking/problem solving, quantitative reasoning, information literacy, understanding and appreciating diversity, and personal...
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African American Men in College
Cuyjet, Michael J., and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
African American Men in College is a much-needed resource that includes examples of real-world programs and activities to enhance academic success in the college environment for African American men. The examples are collected from a variety of institutions across the country.With contributions from leading practitioners and scholars in the field, African American Men in College explores the factors that promote a climate of...
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Understanding Students in Transition: Trends and Issues
Laanan, Frankie Santos, editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
This volume provides the latest recommendations on how to address the needs of students in transition at the collegiate level. Understanding Students in Transition covers transitions affecting recent high school graduates, community college transfer students, older adults returning to education, and students displaced by natural disasters.
Addressing the needs of students in the midst of change, particularly those who are...
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The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men
Linda J. Sax
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
Drawing on data from a sample of approximately 17,000 male and female students that represent 200 institutions, The Gender Gap in College examines the impact of college experiences, peer groups, and faculty on a comprehensive array of student outcomes. Author Linda Sax s approach is unique because she directly examines the interaction between gender and a variety of college experiences, a major inquiry which addresses the fundamental...
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Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education
Gabriel, Kathleen F.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled, but students (with and without special admission status who are academically at-risk because of inadequate reading, writing and study skills.
This book provides professors...
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Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy
Allen, Jeanie K., Diane R. Dean, and Susan J. Bracken, eds.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
* Reveals continuing barriers to success for women students
* Offers remedies that will benefit all students
What are the realities behind recent press reports suggesting that women students have taken over higher education, both outnumbering males and academically outperforming them? Does women's development during college diverge from the commonly accepted model of cognitive growth? Does pedagogy in higher education...
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Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Palfrey, John, and Urs Gasser
Basic Books, New York
2008
From the Publisher
The first generation of digital natives children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our cultural life, even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed.
But who are these digital natives? How are they different from older generations or digital immigrants and what is the world they re creating going...
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Black Boys Can Make It: How They Overcome the Obstacles to University in the UK and USA
Byfield, Cheron
Trentham Books, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
This book dispels the myth that Black boys are synonymous with underachievement.
It demonstrates how many progress into higher education, albeit against the odds, and offers solutions for policy and practice. There is a plethora of research focusing on the underachievement of Black boys. But little attention has been given to their positive achievement until this author's research on both sides of the Atlantic.
The...
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The Critical Years: Young Adults & The Search for Meaning, Faith & Commitment
Parks, Sharon
Harper & Row, New York, NY
1986
From the Publisher
A key study for understanding the transformation of meaning in young adults.
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It's All About Jesus! Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture
Peter Magolda and Kelsey Ebben Gross
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2009
From the Publisher
What it is like to be a collegian involved in a Christian organization on a public college campus? What roles do Christian organizations play in the lives of college students enrolled in a public college? What are evangelical student organizations political agendas, and how do they mobilize members to advance these agendas? What is the optimal equilibrium between the secular and the sacred within public higher education?...
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How to Help Students Confront Life's 'Big Questions'
Walvoord, Barbara E.
In The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC, August 15, 2008)
2008
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The Young & The Digital: What the Migration to Social-Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
From The Publisher
A media expert explains how and why the digital migration is transforming youth culture, identity, and everyday life
For the first time in over fifty years, television is no longer our dominant medium: young people are now spending an average of six to eight hours a day online. Watkins contends that most teens and twenty-somethings migrate online to share their lives with friends something television simply cannot...
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The First Time Effect: The Impact of Study Abroad on College Student Intellectual Development
From the Publisher
A fresh look at study abroad programs on American college and university campuses.
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