Learning that Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond
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More About This Title Learning that Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond
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"An exemplar of how to analyze and study the impact of a college on student development."--Wilbert J. McKeachie, professor emeritus, University of Michigan
"Powerful organizing concepts for generating learning that lasts."--Arthur W. Chickering, visiting distinguished faculty, Vermont College of Norwich University
Today's colleges and universities face increasing pressure to develop programs and curricula that will teach students how to handle life's unexpected challenges. Learning That Lasts explores what it means for learners to transform themselves and for educators to foster essential skills for learning, leading, teamwork, and adapting with integrity in college and beyond. The authors draw from two decades of longitudinal studies on student learning in the acclaimed curriculum at Alverno College--and on leading educational theories--to present a theory of deep and durable learning. They include practical strategies for enabling students to cultivate integrative and expansive capabilities across a lifetime. They also draw on their own and other colleges' experiences to develop concrete suggestions for how faculty and academic staff can work together to forge effective curricula, design innovative programs, implement key institutional goals, and renegotiate the college culture.
"Powerful organizing concepts for generating learning that lasts."--Arthur W. Chickering, visiting distinguished faculty, Vermont College of Norwich University
Today's colleges and universities face increasing pressure to develop programs and curricula that will teach students how to handle life's unexpected challenges. Learning That Lasts explores what it means for learners to transform themselves and for educators to foster essential skills for learning, leading, teamwork, and adapting with integrity in college and beyond. The authors draw from two decades of longitudinal studies on student learning in the acclaimed curriculum at Alverno College--and on leading educational theories--to present a theory of deep and durable learning. They include practical strategies for enabling students to cultivate integrative and expansive capabilities across a lifetime. They also draw on their own and other colleges' experiences to develop concrete suggestions for how faculty and academic staff can work together to forge effective curricula, design innovative programs, implement key institutional goals, and renegotiate the college culture.
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MARCIA MENTKOWSKI is professor of psychology and director of the Office of Educational Research and Evaluation at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her associates are a team of faculty, administrators, and researchers who span disciplines in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and professions.
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INTRODUCTION.
Themes and Purposes.
Educators' Ways of Knowing About Learning.
EXPLORING LEARNING IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND.
Student as Learner.
Learner as Developing Person.
Graduate as Performer and Contributor.
INTERPRETING AND ENVISIONING LEARNING THAT LASTS.
Integrating Domains of Growth Through Transformative Learning.
Creating the Learning-to-Teaching Connection.
FOSTERING LEARNING THAT LASTS.
Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice.
Thinking Through a Curriculum for Learning That Lasts.
Rethinking Inquiry That Improves Teaching and Learning.
Transforming the College Culture Toward Learning That Lasts.
Looking Ahead.
Themes and Purposes.
Educators' Ways of Knowing About Learning.
EXPLORING LEARNING IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND.
Student as Learner.
Learner as Developing Person.
Graduate as Performer and Contributor.
INTERPRETING AND ENVISIONING LEARNING THAT LASTS.
Integrating Domains of Growth Through Transformative Learning.
Creating the Learning-to-Teaching Connection.
FOSTERING LEARNING THAT LASTS.
Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice.
Thinking Through a Curriculum for Learning That Lasts.
Rethinking Inquiry That Improves Teaching and Learning.
Transforming the College Culture Toward Learning That Lasts.
Looking Ahead.
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"Learning That Lasts is groundbreaking and gives form and substance to the conversation about learning in higher education and how to promote it . . . much like K. Patricia Cross' Adults as Learners did . . . . Learning That Lasts has more promise and potential than anything else I've ever reviewed for Jossey-Bass." (Maryellen Weimer, associate dean, Berks Lehigh Valley College of Penn State, and editor of The Teaching Professor)
"Even the busiest educators must find the time to explore this many-layered book. The reason is simple: its authors know what they are talking about--and they are talking about the most compelling and vexing issues in higher education today. The insights that fill these pages come from Alverno College, a learning community that has pioneered on our most critical educational frontiers: from connecting with the student's life experience to partnering with employers and civic institutions in creating opportunity for all learners. If higher education is serious about deepening our capacity to help all students learn, this book is a model of the kind of resource we need." (Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation and The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life)
"Learning That Lasts is not only a deep analytic description of the Alverno College program--a program that is a model for higher education throughout the world; Learning That Lasts is also an exemplar of how to analyze and study the impact of a college on student development." (Wilbert J. McKeachie, professor emeritus, University of Michigan, and author of Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers)
"This complex, comprehensive volume gives us powerful organizing concepts for generating learning that lasts. It describes how faculty and staff can sustain collaborative inquiry for continuous improvement, using internal and external research and theory, consortial membership, and publication. Anchored in creative methodological explorations of causality, it is the most sophisticated and penetrating example of a college's educational research that I have seen. It amplifies the local research with a stunning range of scholarly references to relevant literature. Thoughtful educators at community colleges and comprehensive universities, as well as at small private institutions, will find many practical applications to help students enrich and sustain their learning." (Arthur W. Chickering, visiting distinguished faculty, Vermont College of Norwich University, and author of Education and Identity and The Modern American College)
"Higher education researchers, faculty and academic administrators, learning theorists and developmental psychologists will be studying this work for many years." (Journal of Moral Education, 2/02)
"Even the busiest educators must find the time to explore this many-layered book. The reason is simple: its authors know what they are talking about--and they are talking about the most compelling and vexing issues in higher education today. The insights that fill these pages come from Alverno College, a learning community that has pioneered on our most critical educational frontiers: from connecting with the student's life experience to partnering with employers and civic institutions in creating opportunity for all learners. If higher education is serious about deepening our capacity to help all students learn, this book is a model of the kind of resource we need." (Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation and The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life)
"Learning That Lasts is not only a deep analytic description of the Alverno College program--a program that is a model for higher education throughout the world; Learning That Lasts is also an exemplar of how to analyze and study the impact of a college on student development." (Wilbert J. McKeachie, professor emeritus, University of Michigan, and author of Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers)
"This complex, comprehensive volume gives us powerful organizing concepts for generating learning that lasts. It describes how faculty and staff can sustain collaborative inquiry for continuous improvement, using internal and external research and theory, consortial membership, and publication. Anchored in creative methodological explorations of causality, it is the most sophisticated and penetrating example of a college's educational research that I have seen. It amplifies the local research with a stunning range of scholarly references to relevant literature. Thoughtful educators at community colleges and comprehensive universities, as well as at small private institutions, will find many practical applications to help students enrich and sustain their learning." (Arthur W. Chickering, visiting distinguished faculty, Vermont College of Norwich University, and author of Education and Identity and The Modern American College)
"Higher education researchers, faculty and academic administrators, learning theorists and developmental psychologists will be studying this work for many years." (Journal of Moral Education, 2/02)
