Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
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.
Author: Manny Lopez
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2972105182