Student Affairs Reconsidered: A Christian View of the Profession and Its Contexts

by David S. Guthrie

Overview

This book asks Christian educators—particularly those involved in the student affairs profession—to become more engaged with the idea that the programs offered, classes taught, disciplinary actions dispensed, policies framed, and the like, are the arenas in which Christianity must take shape. The book also challenges educators at non-sectarian institutions to entertain the notion that a Christian view of higher learning in general and the student affairs profession in particular may not only be a plausible alternative but a helpful paradigm as well.Contents: A Framework of Understanding, D. Terry Thomas and David S. Guthrie; Student Affairs in Historical Perspective, Barry J. Loy and William M. Painter; Student Learning and Student Affairs, David S. Guthrie; Christian Higher Education and Christian Student Affairs, David S. Guthrie; Theorizing in Student Affairs from a Christian Perspective, Jeanette Bult De Jong; Model Programs in Student Affairs, Jay H. Barnes and Kate Harrington; Reframing Student Affairs and Higher Learning, Kate Harrington.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761807957
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/01/1997
Series:	Calvin Center Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

David S. Guthrie is Dean of Student Development, Student Life Division and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Editorial Reviews

Student affairs administrators at all types of institutions ought to read this book. It provides a good base for thought and discussion about the purposes of the profession, the theories of student development and learning environments.
— Richard L. Palm, University of Missouri—Kansas City

Journal Of College Student Development

...a welcome contribution...the authors have begun a discussion that will prepare us to think better about the changing world of higher education and our mission within it.

Christian Scholar's Review

...helpful little book.

Comparative Education Review

"Student affairs administrators at all types of institutions ought to read this book. It provides a good base for thought and discussion about the purposes of the profession, the theories of student development and learning environments."

Journal Of College Student Development - Richard L. Palm