Occasionally on this blog, we want to post a paper or essay.
Here is one that was prepared in 2008 and makes its first appearance here. One of us — Jim — is a co-author of the paper and the other authors agreed to this posting.
The concepts of the paper and even the title, “Educating the Whole Student,” fit well with the idea of this blog (and our first post) about the contribution of experiential learning to classical academic education. It also fits with the potential involvement of different learning processes and brain systems in experiential education.
Take a look below — your comments and ideas are welcome. And we can also connect you back to the other authors of this paper, if needed.
One Response to “Learning Outside the Traditional Classroom: Educating the Whole Student”
Jim says:
Ashley,
Thank you for the substantial comment. I also found it “authentic” to make a pun on something that appears in the Northeastern University strategic plan that experiences should be both substantial and authentic to be transfomative and that is what is wanted to compliment classical acadmic education. The key is how we do it. How do we better engage students in learning in and out of the classroom? You decribe some powerful experiences both places and have given us much about which to think. Let us keep going and do that thinking.
-Jim