ABSTRACT
The shift to a curricular approach to learning beyond the classroom moves student affairs educators from being transactional to transformational. It allows educators to honor, synthesize, integrate, assess, and continually design pedagogy in the cocurricular arena. This chapter summarizes the distinctions between traditional educational approaches and the curricular approach. The curricular approach depicts how the student affairs profession has evolved and continues to evolve. The importance of honoring students as learners and shifting from teacher-centric paradigms to learner-focused ones within the scope of higher education has been documented in various forms of scholarship. R.B. Barr and Tagg, in “From Teaching to Learning,” asserted students and institutions should cocreate learning experiences. Student affairs educators do not have to search far and wide for an educational focus. Finally, the chapter also presents an overview of this book.
