National Collegiate Honors Council
Date of this Version
2023
Document Type
Article
Citation
Chapter 1, pages 3-30
In: Advising for Today's Honors Students, Erin E. Edgington, editor
National Collegiate Honors Council, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 2023
Abstract
Section headings:
How honors advising is different
Institutional motivations
Philosophical approaches
Actual practices
How honors students are different
How honors goals and outcomes are different
Last paragraph:
We must guide students into experiences that enable them to develop their potentialities. The emphasis must be on the new and changing nature of life as lived in the twenty-first century. Advisors are fellow travelers with students in the pursuit of lifelong learning and communities of interest, practice, and commitment. Together we struggle to find meaningful, relevant work; to achieve autonomy and intellectual independence; and to develop empathy, humility, and gratitude. Advising as andragogy encourages students to be producers of culture and social interventions rather than consumers of the status quo. Advising as praxis, eudaimonia, and andragogy create civically engaged adults who are well-prepared to be mentors to others.
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