Christian student development in a postmodern world : a qualitative study on the impact a postmodern worldview (social imaginary) has on the engagement of Christian college student affairs personnel with the hearts, minds, and practices of their Gen Z students

Haase, Kathleen G.

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Christian student development in a postmodern world : a qualitative study on the impact a postmodern worldview (social imaginary) has on the engagement of Christian college student affairs personnel with the hearts, minds, and practices of their Gen Z students

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Haase, Kathleen G. Christian Student Development In a Postmodern World : a Qualitative Study On the Impact a Postmodern Worldview (social Imaginary) Has On the Engagement of Christian College Student Affairs Personnel with the Hearts, Minds, and Practices of Their Gen Z Students. shared-search.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7335b2a2-1183-499d-bb35-0860641a6790?locale=en.

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H. K. G. Christian student development in a postmodern world : a qualitative study on the impact a postmodern worldview (social imaginary) has on the engagement of Christian college student affairs personnel with the hearts, minds, and practices of their Gen Z students. https://shared-search.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7335b2a2-1183-499d-bb35-0860641a6790?locale=en

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Haase, Kathleen G. Christian Student Development In a Postmodern World : a Qualitative Study On the Impact a Postmodern Worldview (social Imaginary) Has On the Engagement of Christian College Student Affairs Personnel with the Hearts, Minds, and Practices of Their Gen Z Students. https://shared-search.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7335b2a2-1183-499d-bb35-0860641a6790?locale=en.

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Christian Student Affairs personnel seek to live out their vocational calling in alignment with biblical wisdom by nature of their commitment to Christ and his word. They assent to the authority of scripture, but they have also been impacted by the undercurrents of the postmodern culture. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact a postmodern worldview (social imaginary) has on the engagement of Christian college Student Affairs/Student Development personnel with their Gen Z students, and in particular, their engagement with their students’ hearts, minds, and practices. Utilizing the book of Proverbs (representing biblical wisdom concerning young people’s hearts, minds, and practices) and the “three great untruths” of Lukianoff and Haidt found in The Coddling of the American Mind (representing postmodern “wisdom”), this study sought to gain insight into which type of wisdom was being described when Christian college Student Development personnel talked about developing the hearts, minds, and practices of their students. This study utilized a qualitative design using semi-structured interviews with eight Christian College Student Development personnel from a singular CCCU (Council for Christian Colleges and Universities) institution in the Midwest. Interviews were conducted with Student Development professionals from a variety of offices within the Student Development division of that institution. The interviews were analyzed and compared in order to identify worldview categories and themes. The introduction and literature review focused on four key areas regarding the impact of postmodernism on the engagement of Christian College Student Development personnel with the hearts, minds, and practices of their Gen Z students: the roots and impact of modernism and postmodernism on contemporary American higher education (in the introduction); the good, true, and beautiful life according to the proverbs of Solomon; the good, true, and beautiful life according to the modern social imaginary; and the good, true, and beautiful life according to the postmodern social imaginary. The resulting analysis revealed these primary findings. First, CCSDP answered questions about living truthfully, flourishing, and doing good in the world in ways most aligned with the wisdom of Proverbs. Second, there was also significant alignment in their answers with modern and postmodern social imaginaries. This study identified which concepts in Proverbs and which concepts in the modern and postmodern social imaginaries the CCSDP were describing in their answers, as well as potential cultural reasons for those descriptions.

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