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- Title
INHABIT THE GAP.
- Authors
Komives, Susan R.
- Abstract
To help students translate knowledge into action, one must examine reasons for the inconsistency between knowledge and action. In the early 1990s, a front-page article in the journal titled 'Chronicle of Higher Education' reported distressing findings of a recent study that nearly all college students knew how HIV was contracted but fewer than a third reported practicing safe sex. This was a discrepancy in developmental terms. The goal of student development educators is to help students go from knowing something to being able to use that knowledge to inform their own attitudes and behaviors. Since Aristotle, educators have known that the educational cycle means finding strategies to take myriad data, process them to become information, integrate sources of information to become knowledge, reflect on and experience knowledge to find understanding, and through understanding reach some level of wisdom. Wisdom should then lead to meaningful thought and action.
- Subjects
EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE management; HUMAN behavior; HIGHER education; EDUCATORS; COLLEGE student development programs
- Publication
About Campus, 2000, Vol 5, Issue 5, p31
- ISSN
1086-4822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/108648220000500509