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“Slowly Changing The World”: Embedding Experiential Learning To Enhance Ethics And Diversity, Riley Caldwell-O’Keefe, Matt Recla Jan 2020

“Slowly Changing The World”: Embedding Experiential Learning To Enhance Ethics And Diversity, Riley Caldwell-O’Keefe, Matt Recla

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In this chapter, the authors discuss the process of embedding experiential learning in a required ethics and diversity course (ED200). The course is a model of humanistic education in which students develop disciplinary-based methodological expertise while also drawing on cross-disciplinary, inclusive, problem-solving skills. The authors suggest that in a course that challenges students to think about their lives in community, engagement with that community plays a critical role in humanizing the learning experience. This pedagogical emphasis on experiential learning, instantiated as community engagement, unites the foci of ethics and diversity through students’ practical application of and reflection on their experiences …