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Student Social Identity Development
A Speech Covering the Project
When it comes to university students and their need for advice and leadership, there are important principles and key strategies that an incoming academic advisor should be familiar with and should be eager to put into practice. First of all it is vitally important for an incoming academic advisor to understand that many students aren't involved in higher education just obtain a degree, although of course that is an important part of the experience. For many students, they are in universities and colleges in order to develop a strong social identity and to achieve a higher level of intellectual competencies, which they believe will help them rise to another social level, perhaps greater than they had after high school
The new student, especially, should be viewed by academic advisors as being involved in a dramatic transition from one developmental stage -- young adulthood -- into their next development phase -- adulthood. Coming into the university the student already has an identity, but that identity may be something the student is trying to escape from. He may be trying to shed the skin of his old identity. And so, he...
That group will represent a higher socioeconomic level than he has come from and hence, he will strive to become part of that campus group. Identifying with that group may help his self-concept (which was likely confused or not fully developed after getting out of high school), but his participation with that particular group depends on whether the existing group sees him as a worthy member.
An advisor discussing academics with a student should dig deeper into the student's campus experience than just his career goals. The advisor should seek to know what motivates the student to seek a certain social identity, and the advisor should be comfortable with discussing the tension or pressure that the student may be experiencing while seeking a revised or altogether new social identity. Some students will experience emotional instability that may be related to difficult coursework, but it may also be due to their struggle to deal with their emerging social identity. Becoming scholarly at the same time he is developing a more mature personality and a social identity is not easy for all students, hence, the importance for academic…
Social Media as a Potential Tool in Conflict Resolution: A Facebook Perspective Humans are social animals, and will usually dwell together in communities, based on their beliefs, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions which may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. Community In sociology the word community is often used to refer to a group that is organized around common
All that is left are the bullying words, without so much of the context that comes with face-to-face communications. Franek's surmised that children who have been cyberbullied are more likely to perform cyberbullying on others. With cyberbullying on the rise, this is of particular concern. "When asked if they had been buillied while online, 10% indicated yes. The 2006 NASSP publication News Leader indicated that 33% of all teens aged
business2community.com/social-media/2012s-ten-worst-social-media-Disaster-0370309 Using contemporary illustrative examples from academic literature and reputable business publications, discuss the concept of "Social Business" and the resultant opportunity and challenges that are currently being faced by the retail industry globally. Concept of Social Business Concept of Social Business with Retailers Social Media and Retailing Best Practices in Administering Social Media There is a growing body of research that confirms that companies of all sizes and types can realize a wide array
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). With that said, the needs of students with specific educational challenges are diverse and complex, and the solutions to their needs are not revealed in the results of standardized testing (Crawford &
Example The same group of competitive students, after college acceptance letters have been mailed, goes together on a senior trip, for one last time. A a. Social facilitation: Students are on their best behavior for the period before the trip, because they know that any infraction may result in its cancellation, which will injure the entire group. A b. Co-actors: The student senior class as a whole feels a sense of unity, because it is
MSW student Social support through social networking sites; case in point - YouTube Way before the Internet exploded, Marshall McLuhan (1964) said that "the medium is the message." His statement is applicable in our society today where the internet is instrumental in communication. Communication technology has grown and continues to grow exponentially and it cannot be ignored in the current environment. It has altered the way people interact, how we learn