| Title: |
Rooted in Relations: Honors and a Relation-Based Approach to Learning |
| Authors: |
Labovitz, Emma |
| Source: |
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive |
| Publisher Information: |
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL |
| Subject Terms: |
higher education—honors programs & colleges; social emotional learning; Appalachian State University (NC)—Honors College; Curriculum and Instruction; Education; Educational Administration and Supervision; Educational Methods; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration; Liberal Studies |
| Description: |
As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (2022) collection of essays about the value of honors to its graduates (1967–2019), the author reflects on the personal and professional impacts of the honors experience. After graduating with my bachelors, I took a 6-month temporary job in Nepal working with a non-profit doing development research. While there I worked with a cohort of international and Nepali interns, and my fellow international expatriates continuously remarked on the ways life in Nepal bleeds into the streets. They pointed out that in much of the Western world, life is confined to our living rooms or patios, guarded by privacy fences. In Nepal, life has a less sterile rhythm. Neighbors always initiated greetings, offering Chia to be idly sipped over conversation. Life was inextricably intertwined, an increasing anomaly in the West as we retreat to the privacy of our single-family homes and, more recently, to the squares of our Zoom screens. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/728; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nchcjournal/article/1728/viewcontent/Labovitz.pdf |
| Availability: |
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/728; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nchcjournal/article/1728/viewcontent/Labovitz.pdf |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F2EAAA69 |
| Database: |
BASE |