National Collegiate Honors Council
Date of this Version
2023
Document Type
Article
Citation
Chapter 18, pages 441-475
In: Honors Colleges in the 21st Century, Richard Badenhausen, editor
National Collegiate Honors Council, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 2023
Abstract
Honors education has a rich history of preparing students to be good communicators, to think deeply and broadly, to collaborate effectively, and to be ethical citizens engaged in communities. The challenges of contemporary society, however, call for something more. To engage effectively with complex societal issues, students must identify and collaborate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders in the community, understand and employ systems thinking, value highly diverse perspectives, and develop communication skills for conflict management. To develop these additional skills and perspectives, the authors invoke the concept of fourth space as the deep engagement of honors students in their communities. To embed this as a formal part of honors education, they discuss collaborative and systems-based approaches to active learning pedagogies and provide one model for this work. A fourth space also provides opportunities for a kind of curricular and co-curricular learning that can enhance retention and recruitment of students. There are clear benefits to students and their honors programs and colleges from institutional collaboration in preparing them to have profound and far-reaching impacts on our world.
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