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Pivot Points: Direct Measures of the Content and Process of Community-based Learning
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Community-based learning

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Wickersham, Carol, Charles Westerberg, and Karen Jones. 2016. “Pivot Points: Direct Measures of the Content and Process of Community-Based Learning”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, January. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/pivot-points-direct-measures-of-the-content-and.

Abstract

This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to identifying a means to reveal that learning had occurred, we looked for evidence that the students were mastering sociological content, especially the concepts and habits of...

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

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