Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of Academic Advising Flashcards
Theories based on seeing one thing in terms of another; borrowing theory and ideas from other fields and applying them to advising
Analogic theories
Theories based on exhorting advisors to advise in a certain way
Normative theories
Advising concerned with facilitating the students rational process, environmental and interpersonal relations, behavioral awareness, and problem solving, decision making, and evaluating skills
Developmental advising
O’Banion’s 5 dimensions of developmental advising …
- Exploration of life goals
- Exploration of vocational goals
- Program choice
- Course choice
- Scheduling courses
3 theoretical categories of developmental advising …
- Psychosocial-Identity Formation
- Cognitive-Developmental Structures
- Personal Preferences/Types
Developmental advising theories that look at different periods or stages in people’s lives and the issues they face; focus on developmental tasks, transitions, identity formation
Psychosocial-Identity Formation theories
Erikson’s 8 stages of development include …
- Trust vs. Mistrust
- Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt
- Initiative vs. Guilt
- Industry vs. Inferiority
- Identity vs. Role confusion
- Intimacy vs. Isolation
- Generativista vs. Stagnation
- Ego integrity vs. Despair
Chickering and Reisser’s term for stages of student growth along psychosocial lines
Vectors
Chickering and Riesser’s 8 vectors of development include …
- Developing competence
- Managing emotions
- Moving through autonomy to independence
- Developing mature interpersonal relationships
- Establishing identity
- Developing purpose
- Developing integrity
An advising theory which allows students to be who they are and develop strengths they possess to manage a variety of tasks
Strengths-based advising
3 differences between developmental and strengths-based advising are that strengths-based advising …
- Is based on student motivation
- Focuses on possibilities
- Focuses on talents and skills
The process of providing higher levels of initial support for students as they entered the zone of proximal development with the gradual dismantling of the support structure as students progressed towards independence
Scaffolding
Developmental advising theories which refer to how individuals perceive and interpret their life experiences
Cognitive-Development Theories
Kohlberg’s 6 stages of moral development include …
- Punishment and obedience orientation
- The instrumental purpose orientation
- The “good boy-good girl” orientation
- The social-order-maintaining orientation
- The social contract orientation
- The universal ethical principle orientation
Perry’s 9 worldview positions include …
- Basic duality
- Multiplicity prelegitimate
- Multiplicity legitimate
4.a. Multiplicity coordinate
4.b. Relativism subordinate - Relativism
- Commitment foreseen
7-9. Evolving commitments
