Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A Snapshot of Today's Student Culture

Student Development Theory

•Arthur Chickering’s Vectors of Development – the psychosocial theory that allows us to think about what students may be going through at the moment. (Remember, in order to do anything we really need to know our students)

1. Developing Competence
2. Managing Emotion
3. Moving Through Autonomy Toward Interdependence
4. Developing Mature Interpersonal Relationships
5. Establishing Identity
6. Developing Purpose
7. Developing Integrity


Chickering, A.W. (1969)Education and Identity, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

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