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Sharing power in the classroom: community college professors who facilitate student character development

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dc.contributor.authorHumphreys, Connie Kay, author
dc.contributor.authorTimpson, William, advisor
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T19:53:52Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T19:53:52Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractCollege faculty can try to increase student character development by offering more choices and by sharing some of their power in the classroom. Power sharing is a participative gesture, and participative teachers can encourage students to be engaged in their own learning processes. This requires students to make decisions about how they will learn and to be responsible for their choices. Through the practice and habit of making decisions about power and assessment of learning, students may be able to promote their own character development. To facilitate this development, faculty members may focus on awareness, care, student engagement, academic integrity, and a sharing attitude. This phenomenological study examined the reflections, values, relationships, challenges, and successes of community college teachers who try to promote student character development. Using qualitative research methods, a complex picture with findings that were textural and meaningful was created. Seven community college faculty members who teach using a developmentalist focus in an attempt to facilitate student character development were chosen for the study. The essential theme of building up emerged from my reflections of the data gathered from the face-to-face interviews. The common themes were self-identity, diversity, commitment, sacrifice, and becoming.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierETDF_Humphreys_2009_3374669.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237789
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectbuilding up
dc.subjectcharacter development
dc.subjectcommunity college
dc.subjectparticipatory
dc.subjectself-actualization
dc.subjectshared governance
dc.subjectstudent character development
dc.subjectcommunity college education
dc.subjectadult education
dc.subjectcurriculum development
dc.subjectcollege professors
dc.subjectpersonality traits
dc.titleSharing power in the classroom: community college professors who facilitate student character development
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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