Peer Leadership in Higher Education
Subtitle: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 157
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education -- v. 110; J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9781118310458
Subjects: Peer teaching; Group work in education; Peer-group tutoring of students; Team learning approach in education
Description: Peers have always been an important influence on students' college experience. Peer leadership programs are not only pervasive but also offer an effective means to advance students' adjustment, learning, development, and success. This issue covers peer leadership as an emerging high-impact practice in support of 21st Century Learning Outcomes. In it, you'll learn: The benefits of peer leader programs A history of peer education How to provide academic support through peer education Peer leadership in the cocurriculum Integrating technology into peer leader responsibilities Peers in doctoral education The architecture of a high-impact and sustainable program. This is the 157th volume of thid Jossey-Bass series. Addressed to higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, New Directions for Higher Education provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.
Table of contents: title: Peer Leadership in Higher Education; title: Contents; title: Editor's Notes; title: 1. The Benefits of Peer Leader Programs: An Overview from the Literature; title: 2. Where It All Began: Peer Education and Leadership in Student Services; title: 3. Providing Academic Support Through Peer Education; title: 4. Peer Leadership in the Cocurriculum: Turning Campus Activities into an Educationally Purposeful Enterprise; title: 5. Integrating Technology into Peer Leader Responsibilities; title: 6. Peers in Doctoral Education: Unrecognized Learning Partners.; title: 7. The Architecture of a High-Impact and Sustainable Peer Leader Program: A Blueprint for Success; title: Index.