Browsing by Author "Madsen, Sarah E., 1993-"
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Item College student identity formation and negotiation in the context of study abroad.(2017-03-31) Madsen, Sarah E., 1993-; Scales, T. Laine.The distinct structure and environment of institutions of higher learning directly influence and validate the identities, roles, and statuses of students. Study abroad programs represent one such sub-environment of colleges and universities, wherein the conceptualization and negotiation of students’ identities may be affected by distinct actors and experiences. Studying abroad, then, has the potential to influence the ways in which students make sense of themselves, those around them, and the world at large. This research study sought to answer the following question: How does the transitional experience of studying abroad affect how college students conceptualize and negotiate their identities, roles, and statuses? Ultimately, students' backgrounds, language skills, connections to program faculty, and efforts at integration shaped identity formation in the context of study abroad.Item Consuming Christian higher education : an analysis of administrators' imaginations for consumption and neighborliness.(2023-08) Madsen, Sarah E., 1993-; Alleman, Nathan F., 1975-Administrators at Christian colleges and universities must tend both mission and market, as commodification and competition threaten the formational capacities of these faith-based institutions of higher learning. Consumption, or the use and exchange of goods, services, and relationships can account for these distractions – and their implications on neighbor-love, a central telos of Christian higher education. However, minimal scholarly and practical attention has been given to the confluence of Christianity, consumption, neighborliness and higher education. Guided by the macro-theological prophetic tradition and the micro-sociological theory of symbolic interactionism, this qualitative study was thus guided by the following research question: How do administrators at Christian institutions understand, critique, and reimagine consumption, and what do their imaginations and implementations reveal about the formation, practices, and aims of neighborliness in college? Socio-theological analysis of semi-structured interviews with 15 participants across nine Christian colleges and universities revealed administrators’ truth-telling, lament, and hope related to material and spiritual formation. Study administrators’ accounts coalesced as a narrative of Christian higher education as both a formative institution and as a business enterprise, where theological and organizational distinctiveness were variously pursued. Attention to consumption and neighborliness in Christian colleges and universities, then, can illuminate institutional and administrative movement toward either excellence or idolatry.