Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education

Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Student and Modern Workplace

Michael G. Strawser

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978750685
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• 1 The Turning Tide
• 2 The Necessity of Experiential Learning in Higher Education
• 3 Building and Sustaining Transformative Student Learning Experiences
• 4 Culminating Capstone Courses
• 5 Intentional Service Learning
• 6 Domestic and International Travel and Exposure
• 7 The Quadruple Play
• 8 Entrepreneurship as a Student Experience and State of Mind
• 9 Student-Led, Client-Driven Firms
• 10 Merging Real-World Experience and “Giving Back” through Curricular Community Engagement
• 11 Transformative Intercultural Communication Programs That Promote Student Integration
• 12 Mentoring Undergraduates in the Twenty-First Century
• 13 Learning Communities
• 14 Transformative Learning in the First-Year Experience
• Index
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors