How Student Affairs Education Limits Spiritual, Religious, and Secular Identity Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Graduate Students' Educational Experiences. Issue 4 (1st November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burchett, Matthew; Glanzer, Perry
• Is Part Of: Journal of college and character. Volume 21:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 281
• Page End: 300
• Publication Date: 2020-11-01
• Subjects: Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States -- Periodicals; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States -- Periodicals; Citizenship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 378.015
• DOI: 10.1080/2194587X.2020.1822877
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2194-587X

Abstract

Abstract: Little scholarship explores the attention to religious, spiritual, and secular identity in the graduate preparation of student affairs professionals. To address this gap, we undertook a phenomenological examination of the experiences of second-year graduate students in four elite master of education programs with respect to these identities. We found that both secularists and devout religious believers experienced a marginalization that chilled discussions about these identities and their willingness to share their own identities. Their view that other students and professors did not perceive spiritual, secular, or religious identity development as important amplified their fear and sense of marginalization.