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  title info:
    title: Transforming students
    sub title: fulfilling the promise of higher education
  name:
    name part: Johansson, Charity
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Felten, Peter
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 114 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: The central purpose of a college or university, argues Charity Johansson and Peter Felten, is to transform students. For a student this process is an ongoing one of intentionally aligning one's actions and behaviors with one's core sense of identity, and it is a university's mission to help students both transform themselves and understand the process of transformation so that they are well-equipped to flourish after they graduate. Transforming Students is a sequel of sorts to George Keller's top-selling Transforming a College, which focused on the community-wide effort to remake Elon from a struggling college to a top regional university. In it, Johansson and Felten address the educational mission of Elon to shape students into intention, critical, engaged individuals. Transformative learning for them is characterized by a deep and enduring change in thinking that is seen through changed ways of being in the world. It also generally reflects a new connection to some larger goal or purpose. Drawn from extensive interviews with Elon students and alumni, and with a dozen faculty and staff, this book gathers diverse stories to show how students experience the transformation process, one that rarely follows a neat or linear path. The authors also use these stories to illustrate central themes from the literature on transformative learning and the undergraduate student experience. This book echoes much of what Andrew Delbanco said in College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be (Princeton, 2012), that the traditional four-year college experience is both vital to human development and endangered. Johansson and Felten approach the story from the students' perspective to provide a deeply humane book about the value of higher education.
  note: Charity Johansson and Peter Felten.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [105]-111) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-nc
  subject:
    topic: Transformative learning
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Aims and objectives
  subject:
    topic: College students
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Elon University
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Higher
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives
  classification: LC1100 .J64 2014
  classification: 370.11/5
  identifier: 9781421414379 (pbk.)
  identifier: 1421414376 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781421414386 (electronic)
  identifier: 2013043571
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131209
    record change date: 20151206095937.0
    record identifier: in00003451331