ERIC Number: EJ808117
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0271-9517
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If Advising Is Teaching, What Do Advisors Teach?
Lowenstein, Marc
NACADA Journal, v25 n2 p65-73 Fall 2005
A philosophy of advising referred to as the learning-centered paradigm is described and compared to the dominant developmental paradigm. Through the learning-centered paradigm, one can explain, better than through the developmental theory, how advising is, or can be, similar to teaching. Under the learning-centered approach, the excellent advisor plays a role with respect to a student's entire curriculum that is analogous to the role that the excellent teacher plays with respect to the content of a single course. He or she also helps the student to understand, and in a certain sense, to create the logic of the student's curriculum. Thus, the advisor's instruction in the logic of the curriculum elevates the advisor's work to a central role in enhancing a student's education.
Descriptors: Models, Logical Thinking, Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Counseling Theories, Counseling Techniques, Counseling, Counselor Role
National Academic Advising Association. NACADA Executive Office, Kansas State University, 2323 Anderson Avenue Suite 225, Manhattan, KS 66502-2912. Tel: 785-532-5717; Fax: 785-532-7732; e-mail: nacada@ksu.edu; Web site: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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