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Scholar-Practitioner Exploration of EL Access and Definitions: Going to the heart of ELTHE\u27s special issues defining experiential education.
No full textThere has been a longstanding societal push to diversify the student body of colleges and universities by improving access. Increasing access through the diversification of their membership bases is also an expressed goal of the experiential learning professional societies (SEE and AEE). Overlaying this charge with SEE’s initiative to revisit the defining features of experiential learning (EL) creates an opportunity to consider how definition impacts access to the field. To address this challenge, we employed a scholar-practitioner research methodology exploring the question, How does the definition of experiential learning impact access? This process involved each author addressing three related questions individually before we compared responses and analyzed our data. We found differences in perspective (e.g., administrative, educational, and student) and differences in needs (immediate need for funding to pay for additional EL-related expenses and need for data to show that EL works). Clarifying these differences may help bridge discrepancies in espoused theory and theory in use, thereby increasing opportunities to access EL through definition
Defining Experiential Education: Students describe what gives learning its high impact.
No full textELTHE invited six students from around the country to talk with editor Amy Cicchino about their most powerful educational experiences, and the role of hands-on learning in their college careers. The conversation follows a similar roundtable discussion in our last issue, among seminal thinkers in the field. Like that article, this one has been edited and condensed
Opioid Addiction and Overdose in America
Get PDFIn 1971, Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs. Today, almost 53 years later, it’s clear the United States has not only lost this war but is also suffering the consequences. In 2014, the life expectancy of Americans decreased for the first time since World War I (Deweerdt 2019). The drug related death toll in 2017 alone surpassed American casualties (Minhee and Calandrillo 2019) from “the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars combined.” Three drugs in particular are to blame for what the American government has deemed a public health emergency: opioids, heroin, and fentanyl. Ironically, legally acquired prescription opioids are the biggest culprit as they have acted as a gateway and created a snowball effect into the more serious drug use of heroin and fentanyl. Drug addiction and drug overdose is now considered to be a number one threat to the American people (Minhee and Calandrillo 2019)