Transformative Learning Through Engagement - Student Affairs Practice As Experiential Pedagogy

Informationen zum Autor Jane Fried is a professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Family Therapy at Central Connecticut State University. She is the former coordinator of the Student Development in Higher Education master’s degree program. Dr. Fried is the author of Transformative Learning Through Engagement: Student Affairs Practice as Experiential Pedagogy and Shifting Paradigms in Student Affairs, as well as co-author of Understanding Diversity. She was also one of the primary authors in Learning Reconsidered 1 and 2 and has written several monographs on ethics in student affairs and student development education. She currently writes a blog, where her primary topics of concern are racism and transformative learning, and hosts diversity dialogues to support leaders in higher education who want to develop a deeper understanding of the ways that racism affects our society. James E. Zull was Professor of Biology and of Biochemistry, and Director of The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) at Case Western Reserve University. After 25 years of research on cell-cell communication, protein folding, cell membranes, and biosensors, he turned his interest toward understanding how brain research can inform teaching. Building on his background in cell-cell communication, his experience with human learning and teaching at UCITE, and drawing on the increasing knowledge about the human brain, led to writing his acclaimed first book, The Art of Changing the Brain.We deeply mourn the loss of author, teacher, and friend James E. Zull†.†Deceased October 2019. Klappentext This book - addressed to everyone involved in helping college students learn - presents what we now know about the learning process, particularly those elements that promote behavioral change and the ability to place information in a broader context of personal meaning and long term impact. Zusammenfassung This book – addressed to everyone involved in helping college students learn – presents what we now know about the learning process, particularly those elements that promote behavioral change and the ability to place information in a broader context of personal meaning and long term impact. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword James E. Zull Part One. Shifting Paradigms in Education 1. Insight. Perspectives on Learning 2. Labels and Viewpoints. Lenses That Shape Learning 3. Searching for Clarity 4. Believing is Seeing. American Cultural Norms 5. Telescopes and Kaleidoscopes. Lenses That Focus Our Vision Part Two. Shifting Individual Paradigms to Effect Change 6. Borderlands. Fear of the Other and Significant Differences 7. Border Pedagogy. From Teaching to Learning Part Three. Applications and Implications 8. Leadership and Context. The Central Role of Student Affairs at a Public Liberal Arts University—Elsa M. Núñez 9. Creating Integrated Selves. Sport and Service-Learning—Vernon Percy 10. Engaged Learning. Beyond the Ivory Tower—Julie Beth Elkins 11. Teaching for Transformation in a Business Education—Sarah Stookey 12. Engaging the Head and the Heart. Intergroup Dialogue in Higher Education—Craig John Alimo 13. First-Year Experience. Practice and Process—Christopher Pudlinski and Scott Hazan References Contributors Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Jane Fried
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9781579227593
• ISBN: 978-1-57922-759-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system