The Educational Experiences of Evangelical College Students: An Ethnography of Pedagogy, Literacy and Learning

"Undergraduates are often labeled by their teachers in the social sciences and humanities as ""conservative,"" especially if these students express orthodox religious beliefs. This study investigates a community of religiously orthodox undergraduates, members of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and the InterVarsity staff members who serve as their teachers at a month-long leadership school. This study investigates the pedagogies practiced at the leadership school and compares them with pedagogies InterVarsity students experience within the academy. Based on these investigations, this study argues that InterVarsity helps students integrate and hybridize the supposedly polarized worldviews of the academy and the evangelical community. It concludes by suggesting that both evangelicals and academics would do well to engage student texts that fall outside the normal discourse of the community."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Ose, Kerry Lynn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Colomb, Gregory

• Education, Sociology of

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9904553

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81488