Contested Issues in Student Affairs (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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-Designed to stimulate reflection and discussion about critical and often contentious issues that confront today's student affairs professionals
-Written by leaders in the field
-Related blog site enables readers to teach and learn from each other, and interact with colleagues beyond their immediate campus
What is your level of understanding of the many moral, ideological, and political issues that student affairs educators regularly encounter? What is your personal responsibility to addressing these issues? What are the rationales behind your decisions? What are the theoretical perspectives you might choose and why? How do your responses compare with those of colleagues?
This book augments traditional introductory handbooks that focus on functional areas (e.g., residence life, career services) and organizational issues in student affairs. It fills a void by addressing the social, educational and moral concepts and concerns of student affairs work that transcend content areas and administrative units, such as the tensions between theory and practice, academic affairs and student affairs, risk taking and failure; and such as issues of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and spirituality. It places learning and social justice at the epicenter of student affairs practice.
The book addresses these issues by asking 24 critical and contentious questions that go to the heart of contemporary educational practice. The contributors - student affairs faculty, administrators, and graduate students - situate these 24 questions historically in the professional literature, present background information and context, define key terms, summarize the diverse ideological and theoretical approaches to the questions, make explicit their own perspectives, discuss their political implications, and set them in the context of the changing nature of student affairs work.
Each chapter is followed by a response that offers additional perspectives and complications, reminding re