Researching is Real World Experience for a Researcher

[sanantone]

Just saying it adds credibility to a profession with teachers who tend to have little in the ones that I took.

I'm of a different opinion. I've been to the Alamo many times, and I don't think it would help me teach a course on the Texas Revolution. Plus, in traditional college programs, many students do go see things and work on projects. Anthropology and forensics students at Texas State University work at the body farm where law enforcement trainees from around the country go. LEOs learn how bodies decompose in various conditions. There is no place in the "real world" where they can see all of these situations at once. While criminal justice is more of an applied art, TxState also has the ALERRT center where law enforcement officers are trained on how to deal with active shooter situations. That center researches the best ways to respond. I don't think people realize how much the "real world" takes away from university research.