title: The praxis assignment: experiential learning in a large social-community psychology class.
abstract: In this article, a faculty member, a graduate student teaching assistant, and four undergraduates describe their experiences with a "Day of Social Justice Praxis Assignment" as a form of experiential learning in a 120-person social-community psychology course. The faculty member lays out the goals of the course and her hopes for the specific assignment. The undergraduates reflect on their experience with the assignment, and the graduate student contextualizes how their work is reflective or not reflective of the work produced in the class and course concepts. The article ends with a critical and frank discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of the assignment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. langhout@ucsc.edu
authors.forename: Regina Day
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Langhout
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kohfeldt
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chamberlain
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cruz
authors.forename: Terri
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rock
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Emmert
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000193:education*