Integrating community outreach into the undergraduate neuroscience classroom

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Stevens, Courtney ^a  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based learning; Neuroscience; Neuroscience education; Outreach; Pedagogy; Service learning; Teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859133830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15442896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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