Residential education: Creating sandboxes for Student Development Pieter Kloppers University of Stellenbosch.
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Residential education: Creating sandboxes for Student
DevelopmentPieter Kloppers
University of Stellenbosch
Student learning
• Students learn everywhere wherever they are.
More than a degree.
Skills in:
• Leadership;
• Communication;
• Teambuilding;
• Cross-functional teambuilding;
• Diversity; and,
• An international mindedness.
More than a degree.
Skills in:• Leadership; • Communication; • Teambuilding; • Cross-functional teambuilding; • Diversity; and,• An international mindedness.Add embrace change & entrepreneurial
Student Housing contribute to:
Students with the necessary:
• knowledge;
• skills;
• experience; and,
• confidence
to help create and support healthy communities.
University’s Dilemma
• How do we facilitate the learning if it happens on so many places at the same time?
Utilizing:
• Influence of structure on behavior, • Peer influence in student development, • A campus with a healthy student-lecturer
interaction outside of the classroom; a peer influence supportive of academic excellence and the use of intrinsic motivation of students,
• Systems theory; and• Utilizing dialogue as tool for student
development.
Influence of structure
Good Samaritan experiment
• The structure always wins
Peer Influence
• Single biggest influence on student development
A campus successful in teaching
Pascarella and Terenzini (How College Affects Students, 1991)
• frequent student-lecturer interaction;
• makes use of the intrinsic motivation of students; and,
• has a peer influence where on campus friendships are conducive to academic success
System theory
• What causes what to give us this result?
1 e-mail changes the behaviour of 10 000
Dialogue as tool for student development
• Do not think of building democracy as the building of a house, think of it as a conversation to be had.
Alignment conversation vs Meetings
Creating Sandboxes
Sandboxes
• A structure where all factors to be utilized come together
• Organizational or physical
• Clear what to do• Little time wasted on
introduction and explanation
Clusters of residences
• Better delivery of service
• Peer influence utilised
• More intimate university experience
• Intrinsic motivation of students utlised
• Make use of diversity
Living and learning communities for senior students
• Diverse in gender, race, study program
• A topic – such as a millennium goal
• A guide from university staff
• 12 Lounge seminars
• Publish in student newspaper
• Report
Lounge seminar – student lecturer interaction
• A way to leverage the expectations and goals of first year students
• Student development and learning cannot be switched on or off.
• Students only have a university experience
• Creating the structures to be deliberate and intentional about learning in university housing is an ongoing challenge.
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