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The Development Basis of Higher Learning

CSL: 490 Foundations of Student Affairs at DePaul University presented by Sally Delgado for Dr. Rich Whitney

and Counseling Program on 07.03.14

+ Chapter 3 Learning Objectives

Define Higher learning & discuss the developmental / non-developmental learning in Higher Education.

Examine the students engagement in developmental learning.

Explore the challenges of change: Transformative Learning.

Discuss what the implications for Higher Learning are.

Examine what some of the developmental challenges /barriers are today for integrative, developmental learning. What will

I learn today?

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Think about what the chapter means to you and why it matters? Then share with the class.

Use your brain

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Learning is learning. There are not different kinds of learning. Instead there are just many

things to learn in many areas.All learning engages the whole person. Examples: Your values, personal history, where you were born…. Any others?

Higher learning is learning that

prepares students to think creatively and critically; communicate effectively;

and excel in responding to the challenges of life, work, and citizenship-

is fundamentally developmental.

Teachers mentor students in moving from apprentice to

master.

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Are we really empty heads? Idea of banking?Conveyor belts?

+Something is HappeningSomething fundamental has changed during the years

between H.S and College….We are developing and constructing through the progression as humans but more

importantly through making sense of the world.

So what is REALLY happening is that we are constantly constructing and restructuring what we know through thinking about what we have experienced. Recycling

information.

*LET’S TRY IT OUT*Think about everything you know about China…

discuss it with your group and now share something you didn’t know before.

Our learning environments matter.

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We need to process new information

The mind does not simply absorb or bank data that it encounters it but instead it seeks to organize the data

in some relation to what it already knows.

Learning needs to be ENGAGING

+Transformation can be scary

• Openness to the world

• Molding your identity in your community, society, world and globally

• Acknowledge disequilibrium

• The outcomes/process will be different for each student

• Time invested in learning

Transformative LearningThe Scream by Edvard Munch

1895

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Legitimate!!Trust themselves

Lean on their understanding

Start new networks

Negotiate

Communicate when they need help

Provide evidence for their understanding

Take perspective of another

Checking your emotions

Reflect upon another persons thoughts and ideas

Establishing healthy relationships

Understanding social norms

+Too Much Pressure!!

Challenges Today

StressDrugs

Safe SexRelationshipsFamily Issues

Eating DisordersADHD

GamblingSocial Media

Bullying

I’ll give him

a piece of

my mind@!?%

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Two side’s of the house in higher ed. Inherent in the current academic

learning model is a neat, simple and discrete packing of information.

Barriers

we face

What can we do as

professions?

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What did you learn? Any Questions? Comments

References

Keeling, R. P. & Hersh, R. H (2011). We’re Losing our Minds. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillian.

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