Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Experiential Learning

Karen Lovett is Director of Experiential Learning at the University of Dayton, USA. Her research interests include how people learn through experience in diverse social contexts, and her work highlights the transformative impact of experiential learning on students’ lives.

• 1. Introduction: Listening and Learning from Experiential Learning Educators.- 2. When Students Write for Money: Reflections on a Decade of Teaching Grant Writing.- 3. Intergenerational Engagement through Experiential Learning.- 4. Museums and Mud: An Experiential Undergraduate Geology Course for Preservice Teachers.- 5. Forming Engineers for the Common Good.- 6. The Processes of Reciprocity and Reflection in Service-Learning Pedagogy.- 7. Experiential Learning in Sustainability: Opportunities, Building Partnerships, and Student Engagement.- 8. We Are All Students: The Moral Courage Project as a Model for Transdisciplinary  Experiential Learning.- 9. Dinner in the Desert Kitchen: Reflections on Experiential Learning through Food, Art and Social Practice.- 10. Critical Cosmopolitan Citizens: Experiential Engagement with Local Immigrant and Refugee Communities.- 11. Writing the History of the Dayton Arcade: Experiential Learning through Immersion, Collaboration, and Service.- 12. Power, Access, and Policy: Reflections on the Women's Center Internship Program.- 13. Beyond Skepticism or Compassion: A Critical Pedagogy of Gender-Based Violence.- 14. Performing Arts in the Service of Others: The Common Good Players and Experiential Learning in Social Justice Theatre.- 15. Student Employment for the Real World: Experiential Learning and Student Development.- 16. Experiential Learning and Education Abroad: Examining the Experiences of Students in the Semester Abroad and Intercultural Learning Program.- 17. Afterword: Learning, With Consequence.-