Sociology Professor Presented at Meeting in Boston

Dr. Kristin Park, Westminster College associate professor of sociology, organized, presided over, and participated in a panel discussion at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting March 18-21 in Boston.

Park was one of three sociologists on the panel "Learning through Service: Designing a Quality Experience for Students and Faculty."

"We conducted our session interactively to learn of the needs, expectations, and experiences of those in attendance," Park said. "My presentation, 'Using Bloom and Kolb in Preschool Service-Learning Classrooms,' described my uses of Bloom et al's revised taxonomy and Kolb's experiential learning model in the service-learning design and outcomes for my spring 2009 'Social Inequality' class. I presented qualitative data indicating students' achievement of those outcomes by their demonstrated competency in working with different types of knowledge at different levels of cognitive processing. In addition, students practiced three of Kolb's learning styles-concrete experience, reflective observation, and abstract conceptualization-through their presence in the classrooms and applications of course learning to those sites."

Park, who has been with Westminster since 1993, earned an undergraduate degree from Colgate University and master's certificate in Latin American Studies, master's, and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Contact Park at (724) 946-7251 or e-mail kpark@westminster.edu for additional information.

Dr. Kristin Park