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Hosting a Tent City: Student Engagement and Homelessness
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McKinney, Jennifer, and Karen Snedker. 2017. “Hosting a Tent City: Student Engagement and Homelessness”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, July. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/hosting-a-tent-city-student-engagement-and.

Abstract

In response to increasing homelessness in our city, Seattle Pacific University invited a homeless encampment (Tent City) to reside on our university campus for three months. This provided an opportunity to engage students on issues of poverty and inequality. Building from a service-learning model, we devised course work around homelessness and applied...

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Subject Area(s):
Internship/Service Learning
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium

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