Editors:
- Focuses on community placements and hands-on, real-life educational techniques designed to result in high-impact learning
- Frames chapters around high-impact practices to enable cross-disciplinary dialogue regarding effective practices in teaching and learning
- Chapters are designed as examples of approaches used to accomplish targeted student learning across a variety of Family Science programs
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Internship and Practicum Experiences
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Front Matter
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Service Learning and Community-Based Experiences
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book provides successful models for field-based learning experiences in Family Life Education. Each chapter provides an overview of the implementation details, including key points that others developing a plan could use to guide their thinking. Each chapter is grounded in previous scholarship and identifies how the elements of high-impact practices are addressed in the “real world”. Contributors share their experiences implementing service learning, internships, and other educational platforms outside the classroom walls. This book also addresses both specific content areas within family life education, as well as general course management strategies.
Reviews
“This book captures the essence of field-based learning in relationship to Family Life Education (FLE). The content in this book is grounded in the literature on high-impact practices and service-learning. As an experienced FLE instructor having used high-impact practices for many years, this book supports what I have been doing although I did discover ideas to incorporate into my own course.” (Debra L. Berke, Director, Psychology Programs, Wilmington University, USA)
“This will serve as a much-needed guide for FLE professionals to plan new high-impact experiences or upgrade their current practices. By focusing the book on internship, practicum, service-learning, and community-based experiences, the field has a valuable resource for students of varying levels in their degree programs. I would suggest that FLE professionals seriously consider investing in this book to gain practical, relevant activities, and experiences they could implement and that their students would greatly benefit from in their career preparation.” (Paula J. Tripp, Clinical Associate Professor and FACSED Coordinator, Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University, USA)“This work has the potential to be of immense practical benefit to instructors in family life and especially to the students. In a field that is part in focused on improving relationships in the home, helping students translate theory to practice is always a quest worth pursuing. I view this work as a must on family life instructors’ bookshelves. It can be an effective guidebook to designing significant, high impact learning experiences for our students in family sciences.” (Stephen F. Duncan, Professor in the School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Southern Queensland , Toowoomba, Australia
Tara Newman
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Texas A&M University , College Station, USA
Ashley Schmitt
About the editors
Ashley Schmitt is Assistant Editor in Thesis and Dissertation Services in the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at Texas A&M University, USA. Schmitt has served in an administrative capacity to enhance quality by incorporating high-impact practices on a university campus and her work helped to increase collaborative, active learning and teaching and scholarship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Field-Based Learning in Family Life Education
Book Subtitle: Facilitating High-Impact Experiences in Undergraduate Family Science Programs
Editors: Tara Newman, Ashley Schmitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39874-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81985-3Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39874-7Published: 14 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Family