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Educational Administration and Supervision

University of South Carolina

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2016

Ethnographic Case Study

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Organizational Perspective On Implementing The Residential Curriculum Approach: An Ethnographic Case Study, Hilary L. Lichterman Jan 2016

Organizational Perspective On Implementing The Residential Curriculum Approach: An Ethnographic Case Study, Hilary L. Lichterman

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How does a college or university housing department adopt and adapt to a new curricular approach? This qualitative descriptive case study describes how one, mid-size, co-educational residence life department in the Midwestern region of the United States adopted the residential curriculum approach based on “The 10 Essential Elements of a Residential Curriculum” (The 10EERC) that are a foundational aspect of the content discussed at the ACPA – College Student Educators International’s annual Residential Curriculum Institute (RCI). This study is the first empirical research published on the residential curriculum approach. Additionally, there is a deficit in existing literature on Bolman and …