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Mitigating Risks Of Miseducation Within Labor-Focused High-Impact Practices, Andrew Garda
Mitigating Risks Of Miseducation Within Labor-Focused High-Impact Practices, Andrew Garda
West Chester University Master’s Theses
In this thesis, I address the risks of miseducative experiences resulting from the labor-focused high-impact practices of internships and service learning/community-based learning. As high-impact practices are often considered inherently valuable, there is a need to examine these two practices under a critical action research lens in order to expose the ways in which these practices are not serving students properly. I go on to argue that issues such as unpaid internship programs taking advantage of free student labor and voluntourism existing on travel-based service learning/community-based learning programs negate the potentiality of students to experience the growth in their sense of …