Service-Learning and Writing: Paving the Way for Literacy(ies) through Community Engagement
Published on 21. November 2012
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-78190-265-3 (ISBN)
Description
Service-learning and Writing: Paving the Way for Literacy(ies) through Community Engagement discusses service-learning as a teaching and learning method and its integration with writing. The various authors, from different disciplines and institutions, present service-learning as a means of having students practice writing in real world settings, and they show how relationship-building and partnerships between higher education and diverse communities produce benefits for all involved - the students, faculty, administrators, and the communities themselves. This volume demonstrates how writing instruction and/or writing practice can complement community engagement and outreach at local, national, and international contexts. Through different cross-cultural contexts and academic disciplines, the various authors explore reflection, assessment, internalization, diversity, and multiple literacies and their importance when integrating service-learning in higher education and community literacy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78190-265-3 (9781781902653)
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Content
List of Contributors
Introduction - Service-Learning: Engaging Writers with Their Communities
Isabel Baca
1. Bridging Classroom and Community: An Approach to Doing Service-Learning in the Writing Classroom
Adam Webb
2. Community and Client Partnerships for Students Writing About Science: Exploiting a Situated Rhetorical Context
Kate Kiefer
3. Team Writing for the Community: Literacies Developed in a Service-Learning Context
Kara Poe Alexander and Beth Powell
4. Why Are You Making Me Do This? An Examination of Student Attitudes Toward Writing with the Community Service-Learning Projects
Susan Garza
5. Writing While Participating: Incorporating Ethnography in Service-Learning Across the Curriculum
Guillermina Gina Nu?n?ez
6. Service-Learning with Transnational Students in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study on the U.S.-Me?xico Border
Judith Munter, Erika Mein and Claudia Urista
7. Finding a Shared Path: Journal Writing, Reciprocity, and International Service-Learning
Rebecca Westrup and Phil Bamber
8. Composing Cognition: The Role of Written Reflections in Service-Learning
James M. Dubinsky, Marshall Welch and Adrian J. Wurr
9. Assessing Adaptive Transfer in Community-Based Writing
Michael-John DePalma
10. The ''New Discourse City'' of Older Writers: Aging and Disability as Assets to Collaborative Learning
Suzanne Kesler Rumsey, Ruth E. Ray, Lauren Marshall Bowen and Donora Hillard
Afterword: Community Writing Pedagogies in the Spirit of the New Mestiza
Thomas Deans
References
Author Index
Subject Index
List of Volumes
Introduction - Service-Learning: Engaging Writers with Their Communities
Isabel Baca
1. Bridging Classroom and Community: An Approach to Doing Service-Learning in the Writing Classroom
Adam Webb
2. Community and Client Partnerships for Students Writing About Science: Exploiting a Situated Rhetorical Context
Kate Kiefer
3. Team Writing for the Community: Literacies Developed in a Service-Learning Context
Kara Poe Alexander and Beth Powell
4. Why Are You Making Me Do This? An Examination of Student Attitudes Toward Writing with the Community Service-Learning Projects
Susan Garza
5. Writing While Participating: Incorporating Ethnography in Service-Learning Across the Curriculum
Guillermina Gina Nu?n?ez
6. Service-Learning with Transnational Students in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study on the U.S.-Me?xico Border
Judith Munter, Erika Mein and Claudia Urista
7. Finding a Shared Path: Journal Writing, Reciprocity, and International Service-Learning
Rebecca Westrup and Phil Bamber
8. Composing Cognition: The Role of Written Reflections in Service-Learning
James M. Dubinsky, Marshall Welch and Adrian J. Wurr
9. Assessing Adaptive Transfer in Community-Based Writing
Michael-John DePalma
10. The ''New Discourse City'' of Older Writers: Aging and Disability as Assets to Collaborative Learning
Suzanne Kesler Rumsey, Ruth E. Ray, Lauren Marshall Bowen and Donora Hillard
Afterword: Community Writing Pedagogies in the Spirit of the New Mestiza
Thomas Deans
References
Author Index
Subject Index
List of Volumes