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标题：Engaged Scholarship in the Classroom: The Social Psychology of HIV/AIDS
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作者：Marcia A. Finkelstein
期刊名称：Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
印刷版ISSN：1534-6102
出版年度：2002
卷号：7
期号：3
页码：69-80
语种：English
出版社：University of Georgia
摘要：Although frequently located in populous areas, the nation’s research universities increasingly are viewed as isolated from the communities around them. The disaffection with academia is fueled by a perception that faculty research has little relevance beyond the laboratory. The present article describes one effort at a metropolitan public university to integrate academic scholarship into the community via service-learning. Students in The Social Psychology of HIV/AIDS studied psychology theory and research in the classroom while working throughout the semester at an AIDS service organization. Their challenge was to use social psychology as a framework for understanding and developing solutions to some of the problems confronting the organization’s staff and clients. The students’ contributions, both as scholars and as volunteers, provided much-needed help to the agency. Basic research was shown to have immediate meaning for the community, which strengthened the relationship between the university and its neighbor.