Ozorak Elizabeth Weiss
Department of Psychology, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335, USA.
J Prev Interv Community. 2013;41(2):97-104. doi: 10.1080/10852352.2013.757985.
Community-based learning offers students the opportunity to understand important concepts through their own experiences. Two courses on food and hunger in society, one a first-year seminar of 12 students and one an upper-level psychology course of 20 students, made site visits to local farms, markets, and a soup kitchen while reading about the issues and discussing them in class. At the end of the semester, each student wrote a short self-evaluation in which they were invited to discuss the aspects of the course that affected them most. Student responses suggest that the experiential component of the course was disproportionately powerful, impelling many of them to make changes in their lives as a result.
基于社区的学习为学生提供了通过自身经历来理解重要概念的机会。两门关于社会中的食物与饥饿的课程，一门是有12名学生的一年级研讨课，另一门是有20名学生的心理学高级课程，在阅读相关问题并在课堂上进行讨论的同时，还实地走访了当地的农场、市场和施粥处。学期末，每位学生都写了一篇简短的自我评价，在其中他们被邀请讨论该课程对他们影响最大的方面。学生的反馈表明，课程的实践部分影响力极大，促使他们中的许多人因此改变了自己的生活。
