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Elina Salminen writes, "I’m hardly a radical in the modern sense of the word, but for a while now I’ve been trying to uproot my own pedagogical habits and ground them in (to stretch the simile) more open terrain. Recently, I taught a course on inequality in classical Greece and the modern-day United States that included collaborations with organizations furthering social justice. About half of class time was spent discussing the ancient world, and about half, the modern. The course was built using a framework for community-based learning, called “engaged learning,” a more recent, more thoughtful manifestation of service-learning. The following includes some of the lessons I learned while applying these pedagogical ideals into practice; I also highlight my students’ experiences through direct quotations used with their permission."

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