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Sanford's Theory of Challenge and Support

Reference Materials

Prezi Presentation of Theory

http://prezi.com/ptv0umysea18/nevitt-sanford/

Sanford's Challenge & Support Theory | imjoeboe

http://imjoeboe.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/challenge-support/

The Dangers of Getting Comfortable

http://ashleynrobinson.com/2012/10/11/the-dangers-of-getting-comfortable/

Nevitt Sanford: A founding student development theorist in all his complexity

http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/14086320/Teaching_SDT_Sanford_front_back_handout_2012.docx

Example: Tying your shoes analogy

Readiness Story

- Student with learning disability.

- Too much support = no learning

- Too much challenge = frustration

Origins

Nevitt Sanford, Ph.D, Harvard

- Originated in mid-sixties.

- His ideas led to later research on prejudice

- He helped to establish the field of social psychology

- Wrote a book called Where Colleges Fail in 1967 with opinions that were revolutionary at the time and still relevant today.

How does NSCC challenge and support?

Three Development Conditions

noted by the theory

Challenge

- Program content

- Curriculum

- Classroom

Support

- Alternate testing environments (Disability Services)

- Learning Commons

- Library Services

- Peer Tutoring

- Challenge

- a step that pushes a learner to acquire new growth

- Support

- an environment that is conducive to student exploration of his or her own identity in a safe and encouraging way.

- Readiness

- demonstration the ability to meet the challenge

How can the theory be applied in a college setting?

- International Scavenger Hunt

- NSCC programs in the community

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