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Transformative learning through engagement : student affairs practice as experiential pedagogy / Jane Fried and Associates, foreword by James E. Zull.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fried, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Student affairs services--United States.
- Student affairs services.
- Learning, Psychology of.
- College teaching--United States.
- College teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jane Fried's overarching message is that higher education is based on a profoundly outdated industrial model of the purpose and delivery of learning, and needs urgently to be changed. Student affairs professionals and academic faculty have become frustrated with the alienation of so many students from academic learning who cannot see its connection to their lives. 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Shifting paradigms in education
- pt. 2. Shifting individual paradigms to effect change
- pt. 3. Applications and implications.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-00-344830-5
- 1-000-97558-4
- 1-003-44830-5
- 1-57922-760-0
- 9781003448303
- OCLC:
- 806206340
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