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REFLECTION: APPLICATIONS OF LEARNING ON POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE …
REFLECTION: APPLICATIONS OF LEARNING ON POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE
Throughout this course you have considered how learning applies not only to individual problems, but to social problems and issues facing humanity today. Social problems are behavioral and solving them requires changing behavior.
For more than 50 years, Walden University has provided its students the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can apply what they have learned through their degree programs to affect positive social change. To learn more about Walden’s mission of positive social change visit https://www.waldenu.edu/about/social-change.Links to an external site.
To bring about long-term solutions and promote lasting effects through the process of social change, there are features (e.g., knowledge, skills, etc.) that need to be considered as appropriate to the context and purposes of each issue or problemto encourage a holistic approach to preparing Walden’s learners for social change (Callahan et al, 2012).
For this Assignment, you will identify a social issue or problem that is important to you and reflect on how it might be remediated through social change initiatives and the application of learning principles that you have learned during the course. Finally, you reflect on what you conclude are the most useful concepts that you are taking away from this course, and how they apply to your own life.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
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RESOURCES
Chance, P. (2014). Learning and behavior (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Chapter 13, “The Limits of Learning”
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Callahan, D., Wilson, E., Birdsall, I., Estabrook-Fishinghawk, B., Carson, G., Ford, S., & Yob, I. (2012). Expanding our understanding of social change: A report from the definition task force of the HLC special emphasis project. Download Expanding our understanding of social change: A report from the definition task force of the HLC special emphasis project.Minneapolis, MN: Walden University.
Optional Resources
These resources are optional which you may choose to use to enhance your learning experience and preparation of your Assignments and the test for this week.
TED-Ed. (n.d.-b). Harlow’s studies on dependency in monkeys [Video file].Links to an external site. Retrieved on October 24, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrNBEhzjg8I
TED-Ed. (2016). Wild child: The story of feral children [Video file].Links to an external site. Retrieved from http://ed.ted.com/on/CtIE7P2M
TED-Ed. (n.d.-a). Genie Wiley-TLC documentary (2003) [Video file].Links to an external site. Retrieved on October 24, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E
TO PREPARE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT:
Read the assigned article “Expanding Our Understanding of Social Change” (Callahan et al, 2012).
Identify a social issue or problem and consider how it might be remediated through Social Change features and initiatives presented in the article.
Examples for ideas: Racial prejudice, crime, pollution, education, exhaustion of natural resources, overpopulation, poverty, pandemics, diseases, etc.
Note: When identifying your social issue or problem you should focus on the behavior and its consequences (rather than on the need for attitude changes).
Explain how the social issue might be managed through the application of learning principles you have learned throughout this course, such as principles of reinforcement, etc.
Reflect on what you conclude are the most useful concepts that you are taking away from this course and how the concepts apply, or could potentially apply, to your own life.
You are encouraged to also review the previous weekly Learning Resources for the course, and your previous Discussion and Application Assignments for ideas for applicable concepts.
The Assignment
Briefly explain in a short paragraph (100 words or less) a social issue or problem and explain why this problem is important to you.
Applying information and concepts from “Expanding Our Understanding of Social Change” (Callahan et al, 2012), explain how the social issue or problem might be remediated by utilizing at least one using one feature of Social Change.
Explain how the social issue or problem might be managed through the application of learning principles you have learned throughout this course. Be sure to focus on the behavior and its consequences (rather than on the need for attitude changes).
Summarize in a short paragraph (100 words or less) the most useful concepts you have learned in this course and how they apply (or could potentially apply) to your own life.
Support your Assignment with evidence from the assigned Learning Resources. Provide a reference list for resources you used for this Assignment.
