This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom. Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate students to learn.
I came to this book as an instructor who has done very little in the way of experiential education and is eager to learn about it. The authors' writing is highly accessible. Each chapter does a great job of describing a form of experiential learning, giving some of the history behind it, presenting research that speaks to its effectiveness, and, perhaps most importantly, providing practical instruction on how to put these pedagogies to use. I will need to start implementing one or more of these approaches before I can definitively weigh in on the book's overall quality. Yet my first impression of this text is as favorable as it could possibly be.