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Journal of Applied Social Science, 2020
Community-engaged learning (CEL) is becoming increasingly popular across university and college c... more Community-engaged learning (CEL) is becoming increasingly popular across university and college campuses and sociology provides an ideal space for this type of learning to occur. While increased faculty workloads and the benefit of CEL for students are well documented, less is known about what individual students say about their CEL course experience. This paper provides a student perspective from an inaugural fourth-year sociology seminar course in CEL at the University of Victoria. The course gave students first-hand experience applying their sociological skills while reflecting on their positionality as students, peers, and researchers. Students cocreated and completed semester-long projects to aid their nonprofit community partners. To assess students’ experiences in the course, reflective journals were analyzed to explore what they said when they left the comfort of the classroom.
One of the defining debates o f sociology is the nature of the relationship between the individua... more One of the defining debates o f sociology is the nature of the relationship between the individual and society. One sociologist, Seymour Martin Lipset, investigated this relationship through his analysis of Canadian and American value differences. Lipset (1964) argues that Canadian and American values are different and have remained parallel to each other over time. The following dissertation tests Lipset's thesis of cross-national value differences through seven hypotheses derived from Canadian and American media portrayals of Native issues. Testing these hypotheses is accomplished through quantitative and qualitative measures to determine if Canadian and American media content support or refute Lipset's thesis. Documenting each country's values was achieved by a content analysis of articles from a leading newsmagazine from each country. Maclean's and Newsweek, and comparing their presentations of Native issues. This research found that the majority o f Lipset's...
Between January and April 2000, Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada piloted an anonym... more Between January and April 2000, Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada piloted an anonymous online faculty-administered teaching assessment tool. Five instructors volunteered to participate, and 5 students from classes taught by each instructor joined them in focus groups, for a total of 30 focus group participants. The quantitative and qualitative results from the pilot are discussed and used to determine what influence, if any, the tool had on the teaching and learning environment. Preliminary findings suggest that the software was valuable from both student and faculty perspectives. (Contains 2 tables and 17 references.) (Author/SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
Journal of Applied Social Science, 2020
Community-engaged learning (CEL) is becoming increasingly popular across university and college c... more Community-engaged learning (CEL) is becoming increasingly popular across university and college campuses and sociology provides an ideal space for this type of learning to occur. While increased faculty workloads and the benefit of CEL for students are well documented, less is known about what individual students say about their CEL course experience. This paper provides a student perspective from an inaugural fourth-year sociology seminar course in CEL at the University of Victoria. The course gave students first-hand experience applying their sociological skills while reflecting on their positionality as students, peers, and researchers. Students cocreated and completed semester-long projects to aid their nonprofit community partners. To assess students’ experiences in the course, reflective journals were analyzed to explore what they said when they left the comfort of the classroom.
One of the defining debates o f sociology is the nature of the relationship between the individua... more One of the defining debates o f sociology is the nature of the relationship between the individual and society. One sociologist, Seymour Martin Lipset, investigated this relationship through his analysis of Canadian and American value differences. Lipset (1964) argues that Canadian and American values are different and have remained parallel to each other over time. The following dissertation tests Lipset's thesis of cross-national value differences through seven hypotheses derived from Canadian and American media portrayals of Native issues. Testing these hypotheses is accomplished through quantitative and qualitative measures to determine if Canadian and American media content support or refute Lipset's thesis. Documenting each country's values was achieved by a content analysis of articles from a leading newsmagazine from each country. Maclean's and Newsweek, and comparing their presentations of Native issues. This research found that the majority o f Lipset's...
Between January and April 2000, Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada piloted an anonym... more Between January and April 2000, Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada piloted an anonymous online faculty-administered teaching assessment tool. Five instructors volunteered to participate, and 5 students from classes taught by each instructor joined them in focus groups, for a total of 30 focus group participants. The quantitative and qualitative results from the pilot are discussed and used to determine what influence, if any, the tool had on the teaching and learning environment. Preliminary findings suggest that the software was valuable from both student and faculty perspectives. (Contains 2 tables and 17 references.) (Author/SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.