Students’ ability to integrate learning across contexts is a
critical outcome for higher education. Often the most powerful
learning experiences that students report from their college years are
those that prompt integration of learning, yet it remains an outcome
that few educators explicitly work towards or specify as a course
objective. Given that students will be more successful in college (and
in life) if they can integrate their learning, James Barber offers a
guide for college educators on how to promote students’ integration
of learning, and help them connect knowledge and insights across
contexts, whether in-class or out-of-class, in co-curricular
activities, or across courses and disciplinary boundaries. The opening
chapters lay the foundation for the book, defining what integration of
learning is, how to promote it and students’ capacities for
reflection; and introduce the author’s research-based Integration of
Learning (IOL) model.The second section of the book provides
practical, real-world strategies for facilitating integration of
learning that college educators can use right away in multiple
learning contexts. James Barber describes practices that readers can
integrate as appropriate in their classes or activities, under
chapters respectively devoted to Mentoring, Writing as Praxis,
Juxtaposition, Hands-On Experiences, and Diversity and Identity. The
author concludes by outlining how to apply IOL to a multiplicity of
settings, such as a major, a single course, programming for a student
organization, or other co-curricular experience; as well as offering
guidance on assessing and documenting students’ mastery of this
outcome.This book is addressed to a wide range of educators engaged
with college student learning, from faculty to student affairs
administrators, athletic coaches, internship supervisors, or anyone
concerned with student development.
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Five Research-Based Practices to Help College Students Connect Learning Across Disciplines and Lived Experience
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000977608
Publisert
2023
Utgave
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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