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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED127513 AUTHOR: Malcolm, David D.; And Others
TITLE: The Community Based Block: An Alternative Approach
in
Counselor Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1976)
NOTE: 10 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
California Personnel and Guidance Association (San Diego,
California, February, 1976)
ABSTRACT: This article describes the community-based block
program in the Department of Counselor Education at San
Diego State University. This program allows counselor
trainees to work with disadvantaged youth in schools and
other community agencies. The emphasis of this program is
on the development of skills counselors can use with
minority students while concurrently fulfilling
certification
requirements. Students and faculty are selected according
to interest and cultural background for the two-semester
project. Students spend 12-16 hours per week as comnunity
interns and six to eight additional hours in practicum
supervision and critique. The program attempts to provide
experiences in: (1) building a learning community, (2)
responding to real life needs, (3) understanding the
pluralism of society, (4) using a diversity of learning
methods, and (5) giving continuous feedback as to the
success of the project. There is little systematic
evaluation of the program, but its strengths are identified
as the emphasis on cultural pluralism, the curricular
flexibility, the emphasis on the practical and the
experiential, and the opportunities for students to assume
responsibility for their own training. (HLM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Counselor-Certification; Disadvantaged-;
Higher-Education; Outreach-Programs; Program-Descriptions;
Speeches-; Student-Centered-Curriculum
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Counselor-Training; *Cultural-Awareness;
*Curriculum-Design; *Demonstration-Programs; *Disadvantaged
Youth; *Field-Experience-Programs
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