Looking Forward/Looking Back: Claiming a University Education

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Author(s): Sarah E. Colonna (UNCG, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 16
Source title: PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patrick S. De Walt (California State University, Fresno, USA)and Dara N. Nix-Stevenson (Sincecombahee Educational Consulting, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9236-9.ch010

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / K-12 Education

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Students arrive excited to be in college, but when the semester starts there is a seemingly shared, static view of what a college education is. That static notion includes the teacher having the knowledge and the students showing up to class to be filled with that information to then regurgitate on a high-stakes test. The author is genuinely curious about students' reactions to course reading; even when the students are convinced that the author has predetermined notions of what the “best” things to get out of the reading are, the author often challenges that assumed banking model of education where the teacher knows best, and learning is just a means to a grade to talk about how to leverage all the resources that being on a college campus opens up for them inside the classroom and across campus. A great part of this job is meeting students at the very start of their college experience. This location, at the very start of students' time in college, gives the author a unique perspective on how students bridge K-12 school with college.

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