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| Autor/in | Gerdes, Eugenia Proctor |
|---|---|
| Titel | Valuing Parents |
| Quelle | In: Change, 36 (2004) 5, S.60 (2 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0009-1383 |
| Schlagwörter | Higher Education; College Students; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Educational Experience; Student Development; Individual Development; Independent Living; Personal Autonomy |
| Abstract | Recently, a young faculty member commented that e-mail and inexpensive long distance rates were hampering her first-year students' development by making it too easy for them to stay in touch with their parents. Similarly, Judith Shapiro, president of Barnard College, argued in her August 22, 2002, New York Times op-ed piece, "Keeping Parents Off Campus," that parents have become overly involved in students' college education, to the detriment of the educational experience. Traditional-aged college students today are acquiring independence along with academic knowledge and intellectual skills. For most traditional-aged students (and many older ones as well), this involves working out an adult relationship with their parents. It is unwise for college educators to ignore this developmental task of young adults, which may be closely tied to their developing intellectual maturity. It's also unrealistic to expect parents to help pay for an educational experience that transforms their children into strangers. Just as students struggle to become independent while maintaining a relationship with their parents, parents struggle to balance letting go with the continuing urge to nurture and protect their fledglings. The abrupt removal of young adults from their families may be more artificial than the attempt of parents to reduce the separation by remaining in close contact with their children by e-mail or phone--or even by contacting college/university officials on their behalf. Perhaps it would be easier for both students and their parents if members of the community of colleges and universities, extended education to parents rather than shutting them out in order to prevent their making faculty members' lives difficult because they care too much about their children. We also would do well to educate them along with their children, because parents cause us trouble when they do not appreciate certain aspects of a college education that we as educators value, such as the importance of being liberally educated. If institutions of higher learning can convince parents that students need to browse widely in the curriculum in order to define their own interests and that they can trust universities and colleges to provide their children with adequate guidance along with a rich curriculum, advocates can be made of them instead of pitting their advice to their sons and daughters against the schools. (ERIC). |
| Anmerkungen | Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1319 Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. Web site: http://www.heldref.org. |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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