Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
9-2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Program
Urban Education
Advisor
Kenneth Tobin
Committee Members
Konstantinos Alexakos
Gillian Bayne
Mitch Bleier
Subject Categories
Education | Higher Education | Humane Education | Inequality and Stratification | Place and Environment | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Theory and Philosophy | Theory, Knowledge and Science
Keywords
community college, life purposes, heuristics, authentic inquiry, dignity therapy
Abstract
College students who understand how the courses that they are enrolled in connect with their broader life goals are more likely to apply an approach of task perseverance with academic endeavors. Yet, nearly three million adolescent community college students in the United States may not have developed clear purposes in life. Relatedly, overtime the lack of lucid life purposes contributes to maladaptive behavior.
This dissertation is a compilation of three interrelated studies that took place in two public community colleges in the City University of New York. Guided by authentic inquiry and framed by sociocultural theory, central to each study in this manuscript is the question: what can be learned about educational purposes from urban public community college students? One outcome of my research is a Life Purposes Heuristic (LPsH) that is informed by Dignity Therapy and is included for review and utilization.
Recommended Citation
Lopez, Manny, "Towards a Pedagogy of Life Purposes" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3338
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