Community-Engaged Learning in Criminal Justice: Preliminary Results

• In Event: Community-based Learning in Criminal Justice Classes

Abstract

Teaching and learning pedagogies employed in criminal justice classrooms have changed significantly over the years to include the use of critical community engaged teaching and learning (CCETL). CCETL is an active, experiential learning pedagogy used to advance undergraduate and graduate course learning outcomes by working collaboratively with a community partner to help build community capacity. While there is an abundance of studies demonstrating the salience of this pedagogy for student learning and development in sociology and psychology, there is a paucity of research examining the long-term outcomes associated with CCETL in criminology and criminal justice courses. The project seeks to address this gap in the literature by using a longitudinal, mixed method research design to evaluate the extent to which CCETL humanizes members of groups socially defined as deviant, criminal, or delinquent, engages students to critically reflect upon social change, fosters a concern for justice, and provides high impact educational content that improves learning and skills development. This presentation will discuss the methods behind the current study and some of the preliminary results of the first cohort of students.

Authors

• Bridget N. Joyner-Carpanini, Seattle University

• Brenna Fain, Seattle University