{"id":436,"date":"2010-09-01T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=436"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:07:16","slug":"a-matter-of-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/09\/01\/a-matter-of-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Brandie! on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47268221@N00\/11861157\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/7\/11861157_289a052128_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"graduation (2)\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is an active learning exercise that could be used with &#8220;A Matter of Degrees&#8221; by William Beaver (<em>Contexts<\/em>, Spring 2009). \u00a0Students will be asked to reflect on the purpose of college. \u00a0It could also easily be used with a discussion of manifest and latent functions and could be paired with statistics on levels of education throughout the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Below is a list of reasons for attending college that students commonly cite.\u00a0 Please check the reasons that were motivating factors for you to attend college.<\/p>\n<p>________ To get a better job<\/p>\n<p>________ To acquire a set of skills<\/p>\n<p>________ To earn a higher income<\/p>\n<p>________ To follow a significant other<\/p>\n<p>________ To meet new people<\/p>\n<p>________ Due to doubts about what to do in life<\/p>\n<p>________ To get a degree<\/p>\n<p>________ To get out of parents\u2019\/guardians\u2019 house<\/p>\n<p>________ To meet a future husband or wife<\/p>\n<p>________ Pressure from parents<\/p>\n<p>________ To make a difference<\/p>\n<p>________ Pressure from high school (teachers, guidance counselor)<\/p>\n<p>________ Friends were going to college<\/p>\n<p>________ Other: _________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Group discussion questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why do you think most students go to college?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think that you are learning skills in college that you will use in your job someday?\u00a0 Does you think some majors teach more practical skills than others? If so, how?<\/li>\n<li> What was <em>your<\/em> main reason for going to college?<\/li>\n<li>In your opinion, what is the value of a college degree?\u00a0 In other words, what does it show?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an active learning exercise that could be used with &#8220;A Matter of Degrees&#8221; by William Beaver (Contexts, Spring 2009). \u00a0Students will be asked to reflect on the purpose of college. \u00a0It could also easily be used with a discussion of manifest and latent functions and could be paired with statistics on levels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,34,837],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-college","tag-education","tag-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}