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Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty
We discuss how we have incorporated a community-based research project into a course on the Economics of Poverty in which groups of students work with local non-profit agencies on academic projects during the semester. In addition to providing advice on how to create and manage the projects, we include a thorough cost-benefit analysis of this pedagogical approach, including detailed student feedback that suggests that the community-based...
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- Material Type:
- Assignment
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- September 4, 2019
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- January 25, 2020
- Authors:
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Steven Bednar,
Elon University
Nicole Simpson, Colgate University - Submitter:
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Cathy Swift
- Primary Audience:
- College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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- Website
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- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
