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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY
In terms of studying human development, gerontology is unique in that most college students have not experienced this aspect of the life course yet. While personal experience cannot be generalized, our students can at least relate to the idea of being a child, an adolescent, and a young adult. What...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841346/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.236 |
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description | In terms of studying human development, gerontology is unique in that most college students have not experienced this aspect of the life course yet. While personal experience cannot be generalized, our students can at least relate to the idea of being a child, an adolescent, and a young adult. What they cannot do it relate to the experience of being old, and they may have limited contact with the older adult population, with the exception of grandparents, who tend to be viewed differently from older non-relatives. One way to facilitate students connecting with the older adult population is through community engagement or service-learning (CE/SL) projects. Such projects are ripe for facilitating learning, but there are also potential pitfalls to consider. Here we discuss the need for CE/SL in gerontology, theoretical and practical suggestions, and potential pitfalls to avoid. |
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spelling | pubmed-68413462019-11-13 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY Kruger, Tina M Innov Aging Session 735 (Symposium) In terms of studying human development, gerontology is unique in that most college students have not experienced this aspect of the life course yet. While personal experience cannot be generalized, our students can at least relate to the idea of being a child, an adolescent, and a young adult. What they cannot do it relate to the experience of being old, and they may have limited contact with the older adult population, with the exception of grandparents, who tend to be viewed differently from older non-relatives. One way to facilitate students connecting with the older adult population is through community engagement or service-learning (CE/SL) projects. Such projects are ripe for facilitating learning, but there are also potential pitfalls to consider. Here we discuss the need for CE/SL in gerontology, theoretical and practical suggestions, and potential pitfalls to avoid. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6841346/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.236 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session 735 (Symposium) Kruger, Tina M COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY |
title | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY |
title_full | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY |
title_fullStr | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY |
title_full_unstemmed | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY |
title_short | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE LEARNING: PROMISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOR TEACHING GERONTOLOGY |
title_sort | community engagement and service learning: promising pedagogical practices for teaching gerontology |
topic | Session 735 (Symposium) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841346/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.236 |
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