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Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching
approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors
offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students,
respect and recognize students' social identities and lived
experiences, and are interested in creating community and
environments of openness and trust to foster deep-learning,
academic success, and meaning-making. The authors in this volume
stretch the boundaries of academic learning and the classroom
experience by seeking to identify the space between subject matter
and a student's core values and prior knowledge. They work to find
the interconnectedness of knowledge, understanding, meaning,
inquiry and truth. They appreciate that students bring their full
lives and experiences-their heart and spirit-into the classroom
just as they bring their minds and intellectual inquiry. These
approaches contribute to student learning and the core academic
purposes of higher education, help students find meaning and
purpose in their lives, and help strengthen our diverse democracy
through students' active participation and leadership in civic
life. They also have a demonstrated impact on critical and
analytical thinking, student retention and academic success,
personal well-being, commitments to civic engagement, diversity,
and social justice. Topics discussed: Student relationships and
community building How teaching the whole student increases
persistence and completion rates How an open learning environment
fosters critical understanding Strategies for developing deep
social and personal reflection in experiential education and
service learning The authors of this book remind us in poignant and
empirical ways of the importance of teaching the whole student, as
the book's title reflects.
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching
approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors
offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students,
respect and recognize students' social identities and lived
experiences, and are interested in creating community and
environments of openness and trust to foster deep-learning,
academic success, and meaning-making. The authors in this volume
stretch the boundaries of academic learning and the classroom
experience by seeking to identify the space between subject matter
and a student's core values and prior knowledge. They work to find
the interconnectedness of knowledge, understanding, meaning,
inquiry and truth. They appreciate that students bring their full
lives and experiences-their heart and spirit-into the classroom
just as they bring their minds and intellectual inquiry. These
approaches contribute to student learning and the core academic
purposes of higher education, help students find meaning and
purpose in their lives, and help strengthen our diverse democracy
through students' active participation and leadership in civic
life. They also have a demonstrated impact on critical and
analytical thinking, student retention and academic success,
personal well-being, commitments to civic engagement, diversity,
and social justice. Topics discussed: Student relationships and
community building How teaching the whole student increases
persistence and completion rates How an open learning environment
fosters critical understanding Strategies for developing deep
social and personal reflection in experiential education and
service learning The authors of this book remind us in poignant and
empirical ways of the importance of teaching the whole student, as
the book's title reflects.
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