Given my student affairs background, I spent years learning about and applying student development theory in practice at colleges and universities across the country.

Student development theories are generally broken down into five categories: psychosocial, cognitive structural, person-environment, humanistic and student development process models. This session ...

the Student Development Theory course will provide students with a theoretical background in the developmental processes of college students. The course will cover pertinent models of student ...

Actively creating learning spaces that foster positive development of digital identity should be our mandate. It hasn’t been created (yet), but the addition of digital identity to the current canon of ...

Id: 002852 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description. This course will examine the role of higher education in creating leaders for a diverse and democratic society Grounded in student development ...

Elisa Abes, Ph.D. (she/her) has been teaching in the Student Affairs in Higher Education program since 2005 and has served as the Graduate Studies Director for over 10 years. She primarily teaches ...

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, profoundly impacted educational theory with his comprehensive theory of cognitive development. His work was developed in the mid-20th century, but it remains highly ...

To that end, I have recently become a major proponent of using the Chaos Theory of Careers to frame graduate student career exploration. Based upon scientific conceptualizations of the natural world, ...