Re: [xmca] NOT LCA: Impact of Lab Experience on Social Science Students

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 08 2005 - 13:35:31 PDT


Thanks michael
mike

On 7/8/05, Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> with respect to Mike's formulation of the community based laboratory
> experience, which essentially means a double apprenticeship, you may be
> interested in reading a paper on exactly this issue, and the tensions
> that may arise:
>
>
> Lee, S. H., & Roth, W.-M. (2003). Becoming and belonging: Learning
> qualitative research through legitimate peripheral participation. (64
> paragraphs). Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative
> Social Research, 4(2).
> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03leeroth-e.htm
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 8-Jul-05, at 8:25 AM, Mike Cole wrote:
>
> > Hi Peter--
> >
> > By community-based "laboratory" experience for Social Science
> > students I mean arrangements where
> > there is a class that has a combination of lectures and on-site
> > experiences in a community setting where
> > they are responsible for implementing site goals, documenting their
> > activies on each occasioon, and where
> > the professor and professionals at the site cooperate in seeking to
> > critically examine existing practices with an
> > eye toward improving them in a manner that is motivated by the
> > theoretical ideas of both parties.
> >
> > There can be variations on this model which we have implemented as
> > "U-C Links" (university-community links) but
> > what I have in mind goes beyond normal "experiential" or "service"
> > learning in that there is a deliberate combination
> > of theory and practice, where the undergraduates have real
> > responsibilities to orient to their activities in a way the
> > challenges their university-based reading/discussions, and the
> > community setting, in effect, provides a laboratory
> > for students and professors to test out ideas about how the relevant
> > aspect of the social order works.
> >
> > In brief. Thanks for asking.
> > mike
> >
> > On 7/8/05, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
> >> At 02:58 PM 7/7/2005 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >I am trying to find out if there is any literature on the educational
> >> >consequences of
> >> >providing community-based laboratory research experiences to
> >> undergraduates in
> >> >the social sciences. Any hints would be appreciated.
> >> >mike
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