ERIC Number: EJ1446348
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
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"It's Not Always Poor Decisions": Shifts in Business Student's Attitudes toward Poverty after Completing 'SPENT'
Jessica M. Parks
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, v7 n1 Article 7 p61-72 2023
This Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study examined whether undergraduate business students reported having different attitudes towards poverty after completing SPENT. SPENT is an open-access, digital poverty simulation offered through Urban Ministries of Durham. The author used the Reflexive Thematic Analysis approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006) to analyze 17 student reflection papers. The students were enrolled in an introductory finance course at a small teaching institution in the Southwest. The student reflection paper prompts were based on the four-phase Experiential Learning Model (Kolb, 1984). The author constructed four themes about the students' attitudes toward poverty: (1) laziness and poor decisions, (2) multiple causes, (3) low wages, and (4) importance of education. This research offers implications for college instructors who use simulations and those who teach about poverty.
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Finance Occupations, Poverty, Attitude Change, Low Income, Wages, Decision Making, Influences, Role of Education, Negative Attitudes, Computer Simulation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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