Transformative Learning Through Engagement: Student Affairs Practice as Experiential Pedagogy

Jane Fried’s overarching message is that higher education is based on a profoundly outdated industrial model of the purpose and delivery of learning and needs urgently to be changed.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 because they 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 learn...