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Lotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem
Amanda Datnow; Vicki Park; Donald J. Peurach; James P. Spillane – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
In anticipation of the United Nations Transforming Education Summit in September 2022, this report explores the work of building and (re)building education systems to support holistic student development. It focuses specifically on the journeys of seven education systems--situated in high-, middle-, and low-middle-income countries with democratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Holistic Approach, Educational Development
Varsha Ghosh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Service-learning has become deeply embedded in higher education, as both a co-curricular and curricular tool to achieve learning outcomes, promote civic engagement and promote diversity. Yet it has also struggled with the critique that service-learning, unintentionally, reinforces deficit thinking by promoting a dominant narrative centered on the…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Race, Predominantly White Institutions
Kuh, George – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
This article traces the evolution of holistic student development as the centerpiece of the college experience in the 1960s to its current all-too-often overlooked function in postsecondary education, and it explains why students, employers, and the democracy all benefit from educating the whole person. Holistic student development encompasses…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Student Development, College Students, Job Skills
Wilford, Sara – Early Childhood Today (J3), 2007
A role model is someone an individual looks up to and wants to be like--but also someone an individual connects with as a person. There is a special relationship between a child and a teacher, particularly in the early childhood years. Teachers must think carefully about how their manner affects the children in their classrooms. This article…
Descriptors: Physical Development, Role Models, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship

Polkosnik, Mark C.; Winston, Roger B., Jr. – Journal of College Student Development, 1989
Examined rates of cognitive and psychosocial development and the influences of salient life experiences of traditional-aged college students. Results from 15 college students over one academic year suggest that intellectual and psychosocial developmental processes are not uniform, occur at discrepant rates, and are significantly affected by life…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Development

Kennedy, Dorothy M. – Roeper Review, 1995
This article reports on the activities and interactions of a highly gifted 9-year-old boy working in a fifth grade classroom with students of mixed ability levels. School modifications to manage gaps between the boy's intellectual development and his social and emotional development took little account of his affective needs, and resulted in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary Education, Emotional Development, Gifted
Grytting, Catherine – Arts & Activities, 2000
Discusses the benefits of students participating in art classes, focusing on the development of students. Explains that art education: (1) fosters a joy of learning; (2) supports intellectual, emotional, and social growth; (3) prepares leaders of the future; and (4) inspires students. (SM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Creativity, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education

Hurst, James C.; McKinley, Donna L. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1988
Discusses the value of diagnostic classification systems to counseling professionals. Describes the Ecological Diagnostic Classification Plan, an approach to diagnosis that includes the environment as a possible cause of pathology and target of intervention. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Career Development, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Counseling
Conrad, Dan; Hedin, Diane – 1981
This report summarizes the research and results of the Evaluation of Experiential Learning Project, undertaken to (1) assess the impact of experiential learning programs on the social, psychological, and intellectual development of secondary school students; and (2) use these data to identify those program variables most effective in facilitating…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Intellectual Development, Outcomes of Education, Predictor Variables
Chang, Mitchell J.; Astin, Alexander W.; Kim, Dongbin – Research in Higher Education, 2004
This study utilized a national longitudinal data set of college students to examine the educational relevance of cross-racial interaction and how campuses can best structure such opportunities. The general pattern of findings suggests that cross-racial interaction has positive effects on students' intellectual, social, and civic development. The…
Descriptors: Racial Relations, Undergraduate Students, Longitudinal Studies, Intellectual Development
Erdynast, Albert – 1981
Connections between structural-developmental psychology and field experience education are addressed. In addition to summarizing principles of structural-developmental psychology and relevant research findings, a comprehensive view of individual development is related to the philosophical aims of higher education, and developmental and dualistic…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aesthetic Values, College Students, Developmental Psychology

Solow, Razel E. – Roeper Review, 1995
A year-long qualitative study of 10 families of gifted children (grades 5 to 8) found 4 levels of parental reasoning concerning their child's social and emotional development: (1) no framework; (2) an intellectual framework only; (3) a full intellectual and partial social-emotional framework; and (4) a comprehensive framework recognizing both…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Development, Child Development, Child Rearing
British Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. – 1991
This booklet is intended to help parents and teachers of primary school children understand children's growth, development, and learning. The first section, following a general introduction, lists methods parents and teachers can use to share information about children, schools, and classrooms. The second section discusses the learning process,…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Emotional Development