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Student Social Identity Development
How and Why Students Develop a Social Identity
What is meant by Student Development?
Author Nancy J. Evans notes that the phrase "Student Development" too often becomes simply a vague catchphrase that has little application to college students' lives and learning. Student Development embraces the psychosocial, cognitive-structural, and social identity of students in postsecondary settings (Evans, et al., 2009).
In the quest for self-direction, students universally seek a social identity as well as an education that can propel them into meaningful, successful careers.
Evans, N.J., Forney, D.S., Guido, F.M., Patton, L.D., and Renn, K.A. (2009). Student Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice.
Introduction to Training Session
Clearly college and university students already have an identity when they enroll in classes, although their more mature individual identity in the social milieu will evolve with time. This training session embraces the question of how and why a student's social identity develops. It offers insights and values academic advisors need to understand and to put into use.
Thesis: Approaching scholarship while simultaneously achieving an identity with / in a specific social echelon is a crucial dual role for students transitioning into believable adults.
Students move through stages
The development of a social identity along with knowledgeable skills (learning, doing, thinking and knowing) cannot be easily separated in the life of a college student, Heer explains, referencing research by Barab...
Mirroring Heer's views, Hanson sees college as a place for intellectual development and advancement, while at the same time students build a sense of self through their social location and their parallel social roles.
Hanson, C. (2014). In Search of Self: Exploring Student Identity Development: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 166. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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Learning is Social & Academic
Each individual has a unique past and each person's identity is based on the experiences and the environment that person was raised in throughout his or her formative years. But when the individual enters college, according to author Rex Heer, learning becomes more than an academic process; it in fact becomes a social process as well (Heer, 2008).
Heer references Henri Tajfel's theories on social categorization and social identity, which include the idea that social identity relates to a person's overall self-concept, and the concept of self is based on a person's interactions with group-specific identities (Heer).
Heer, R. (2008). Exploring the Congruence of Ethic Minority Millennial Students' Transition to College, Social Identity and Community, and Online Social Network Services. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest.
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Creating Appropriate Identities
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Works Cited
Evans, N.J., Forney, D.S., Guido, F.M., Patton, L.D., and Renn, K.A. (2009). Student
Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Hanson, C. (2014). In Search of Self: Exploring Student Identity Development: New
Directions for Higher Education, Number 166. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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