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Educational psychology course: Knowing your own learning

Bellarmine College - KY, Kentucky

Students who enroll in The Psychology of Learning at Bellarmine College, incorporate service-learning as a natural extension of their coursework. Students document the learning that they experience in a service project of their choosing, and apply the educational principles of reinforcement, observational learning, and modeling in a paper that they write about the experience at the end of the class. In this way, students learn as much from the way they process the experience as they do from the experience itself, and recognize the importance of relating the two.


From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy

Website: http://cas.bellarmine.edu/departments/psychology/index.asp

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