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Code=889
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Conference Year:
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2018
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Session #:
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015(LEC)
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Title:
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Identities in Transition |
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Lead Presenter:
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Amity Pecenka |
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Date:
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October 01, 2018 Time: 10:15 am - 11:15 am |
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Room:
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N 129 A/B |
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Abstract:
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From Baby Einstein to freshmen's email signatures 'Pre-Med Class of 2021,' this generation of advisees has been measured their whole lives on being a student. With investment and attachment to a singular role, it is no wonder students get stuck: first-year transitions, majors, parallel planning, failure, probation, dismissals, balancing non-traditional roles, even self-harm. We surveyed advising in action, ethnographically, to learn what advisors did when skillfully facilitating transitions. The discovery was foundational, intuitive and corroborated with psychological research: advisors were doing identity work. This session teaches advisors to recognize identity development in their own stories and in those of students. It constructs the four pillars that support effective identity work: e>motion, agency, compassionate data and meaning-over-majors. Session attendees will leave with sharpened identity lenses and greater power to facilitate tough, sticky transitions of all sorts. |
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