Teacher education serves an important role in preparing teacher candidates to engage with diverse student populations. This study supports a need for candidates to practice Invitational Theory and Practice when teaching students from diverse backgrounds. To assess candidate growth, we used Schmidt's (2007) Six Elements of Diversity as a lens for…

This article invites all educators to consider the implementation of the tenets of Invitational Education (IE) as a firm foundation and precursor upon which can be built an Inclusive Education climate and mindset which encourages success for all students. This eighteen month study of two professors from Ohio's Muskingum University shares from…

A couple of decades ago, a visiting anthropologist agreed with some U.S. authors that the American intellectual on university campuses is basically dead and his/her demise is reflected in the superficial, boring, and uninspiring content to which students are exposed. More recent evidence indicates that things have not changed very much. In this…

A review of the literature reports that mental health research publications are infrequently read by counseling practitioners since most believe that research is not relevant to their practice. Proposes that the development of a faculty/alumni research alliance program based on invitational theory will help bridge the gap between the researcher…

Presents a former teacher's personal reflective narrative that highlights how the acceptance and application of the theory of invitational education empowers both personal and professional change. Discusses author's transition from second grade teacher to doctoral student to college professor. (MKA)

Argues to use invitational approach in medical education. Compares elements of Problem-based Learning with invitational philosophy, thereby offering another arena for this emerging theory of practice. Concludes that Problem-based Learning is an ally of invitational approaches and is an offspring of the thinking that also created International…

Researchers agree that academic self-efficacy beliefs are strongly predictive of academic performance. This study investigates four students' perceptions of the evolution of their efficacy beliefs about writing and of the relationship between these beliefs and their writing competence. (JPS)

Undergraduate students (n=178) from a variety of academic disciplines completed the Inviting-Disinviting Index (IDI) to measure the degree of inviting and disinviting behavior addressed to oneself and others. The hypothesis that people tend to be more disinviting to themselves than they are to others was supported. (JPS)

Reviews several approaches that have proven to be useful heuristics in college teaching, introduces a model for describing faculty development in teaching that incorporates many of the tenets of invitational education, and shows connections between this model and the earlier approaches described. Central message is that the act of teaching itself…

Explores the importance of self-invitations in teaching. Suggests that teachers might benefit from examining the self-invitations that urge them to teach. Notes that these self-invitations need to be compared and contrasted with other-invitations that often detract from the personal reasons that originally encouraged teachers to enter the…