Bringing Educational Relevancy to the First-Year College Experience by Bearing Witness to Social Problems

Journal of Experiential Education

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 332-342

  Peters, Jonathan R ^a   Stearns, Donald E ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Educational Models; Environmental Biology; Environmental Science; Experiential Education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845724723     PISSN: 10538259     EISSN: 2169009X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105382590302500307     Document Type: Article

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