Students Unrest in Institutions of Higher Learning

· A personal experience to explain the relationship between virtue, values, and moral concepts as they relate to one of the three theories

2) Explain why it is important to work in a way that embeds person centred values

26) ‘these influences are intrinsic to human development’ and even of Bronfenbrenner (1972, p. 51) ‘with respect to human development, neither factor can exert an influence without the other’.

“It’s not a place for the fainthearted. Student politics at Alabama are as rigorous as the student athletics” (Brown). In 1914 Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity at the University of Alabama formed a secret organization known as “The Machine”. This organization was formed in order to ensure that the Greeks would have total control over the Student Government Association(SGA). Each year when elections roll around The Machine places their nominations for each government position. In years past at the University of Alabama this organization has done whatever it took to ensure their candidates were elected, even if that meant physical or emotion harm to the other candidates. The Machine must come to an end. In order to end an organization that is so ingrained

1. Explain why it is important to recognise and value an individual as a person

8. Which of the following is the primary thrust of the psychosocial theory of development?

others. In developing a sense of individuality and understanding of self a child recognises that other people need to be taken into account; their needs, motives, intentions and emotions. Awareness of perspectives, what someone else may be thinking in relation to a situation phycologists call the development of ‘theory of the mind’. At around

2.4 Describe ways to ensure that own interactions with individuals respect their beliefs, culture, values and preferences

Values inform or influence choices and action across a wide range of role and context. Successful evolution in culture, systems and practices across a diverse needs base.

| * Appreciation of wider rules and understanding in society * Consequence of actions understood * Interest in moral issues and

Higher education has a vast history; beginning in the early colonial period and spanning ten generations. With its wide range of history, aspects of higher education have changed as the ideals and reforms of society adjusted. Albeit, the missions and purposes of college have remained the same. In this paper, I will clarify the three main missions and purposes of higher education. Then, I will shift the focus of the paper to the area I would like to pursue in higher education and how it reflects those purposes.

It is with the individual’s involvement that can determine the path an individual can go in being a path on success and prosper, or a path of deviance and crime. When it comes to the last element of social bond, it is with the element of a common value system that it is with an individual’s belief and the moral validity of shared social values and norms within society. It is with individual’s attachment, commitment, and involvement with a common value system that can help individuals’ follow a clear path away from deviance and crime (Agnew,

“enhancing self-awareness, recognizing values of ‘congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding’, self-responsibility, understanding one’s feelings, awareness of one’s own perspective, being open to experience, being rational, living a fuller life, positive life-direction, acceptance of one’s and other’s uniqueness, prizing one and others, and living a moral and ethical life” (pg. 343).

• encourage you to develop self awareness of your own personal values through critical reflection.

How hence can they be fathomed? The subsistence of a value assumes a value-positing outlook, and human beings create values as growth and survival aids. Since values are helpful for human animal’s wellbeing, as belief within them is critical to our survival, we frequently sometimes opt to forget that principles are our constructions and we survive via them like they were absolute (82). For those reasons, social establishments imposing adherence to hereditary values are allowed to manufacture self-serving economies of authority, as long as persons are existing within them and are thus made to be more protected and their life’s possibilities improved (83). Nonetheless, time and again we deem the inherited values as never again appropriate and the sustained enforcement of them stand no longer within the life’s