Full Description
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First-Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher education and serves as a foundational lens and framework for thinking through higher education from both an experiential and transformative instructional context. As instructors and administrators struggle with twenty-first-century challenges, this seminal text serves as a companion resource that presents innovative twenty-first-century techniques in a fair and balanced theoretical context.
Contents
Chapter One: The Turning Tide: Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education
Michael G. Strawser, Renee Kaufmann, and Dauen Grace Lee
Chapter Two: The Necessity of Experiential Learning in Higher Education
Mary Z. Ashlock
Chapter Three: Building and Sustaining Transformative Student Learning Experiences
Phillip E. Wagner
Chapter Four: Culminating Capstone Courses
Jason M. Martin
Chapter Five: Intentional Service Learning
Carolyn Baum and Trudy L. Hanson
Chapter Six: Domestic and International Travel and Exposure
Shawn Apostel and Lauren Coffey
Chapter Seven: The Quadruple Play: The Intersection of Internships with Students, Employers, Universities, and the Community
Stuart L. Esrock and Trey Lewis
Chapter Eight: Entrepreneurship as a Student Experience and State of Mind
Brandon K. Chicotsky
Chapter Nine: Student-led, Client-driven Firms
Stacie Shain
Chapter Ten: Merging Real World Experience and "Giving Back" through Curricular Community Engagement
Deborah D. Sellnow-Richmond and Scott A. Sellnow-Richmond
Chapter Eleven: Transformatve Intercultural Communication Programs that Promote Student Integration
Rain Wuyu Liu and Matthew Rynbrandt
Chapter Twelve: Mentoring Undergraduates in the 21st Century: Who Benefits?
Ed C. J. Long
Chapter Thirteen: Learning Communities: More Than Just Hip
Jessica C. Hume and Jenny McIntosh
Chapter Fourteen: Transformative Learning in the First-Year Experience: Transformative Learners Outside the Classroom
James D. Breslin and Anna Sharpe
Index
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