Search Results for service

...Mary Hutchinson © 2005 Duke University Press 2005 Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, eds. 1997 . Writing the Community: Concept Models for Service-Learning in Composition . Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education/National Council of Teachers...

...Gregory Jay This essay argues that a pedagogy of “dialogue across differences” should be infused into the core curriculum and function as the link joining multicultural education to service learning. Close examination of student reflections and journal writings reveals how such dialogue can enhance...

... Linguistics Course: Designing Meaningful Assignments for Pre-service Teachers Beth Lewis Samuelson and Cathy Hicks-Kennard As junior faculty in our rst tenure-track teaching positions at Central Michi- gan University, we were each assigned to teach a section of a survey course called ENG...

...Casey Kayser This article discusses the convergence of the perspectives of literary, gender, and regional studies in the implementation of an oral history project as a service-learning requirement in an upper-level southern women's literature course, providing information about the model...

...Donna M. Bickford; Nedra Reynolds © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Adler-Kassner, Linda, et al. 1997 . Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition . Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education. Agosín, Marjorie. 2001 . Untitled...

...Hannah M. Ashley © 2003 Duke University Press 2003 Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition . By Thomas Deans. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. Cushman, Ellen. 1999 . “The Public Intellectual,Service Learning, and Activist Research...

...Matthew C. Hansen This article describes a service-learning program for undergraduate Shakespeare courses and the project's learning outcomes. The project enables significant ownership of Shakespeare, demonstration and engagement of students' multiple intelligences, and a re-valuation of the useful...

...Ryan K. McBride This article presents the curricular and service-learning realities of a program that launches middle school debate teams in New Orleans public schools. By leaning on classical rhetoric in the writing classroom, McBride’s classes learn fundamentals of debate and rhetoric...

...Mariette J. Bates This article explores how the experience of being a caregiver and service provider informs teaching disability studies to students who are also frontline workers in service agencies. I discuss my own history as a service provider and stepparent of an adult with disabilities who...

... studies; share cross-disciplinary understandings of microaggressions; and offer illustrations from sites of research, teaching, and service. Works Cited Baca Damián Villanueva Victor eds. 2009 . Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE . New York : Palgrave Macmillan...

...Stephanie White Through classroom observations and semi-structured, text-based interviews, this study analyzes the impact of a service-learning first-year composition course on students’ rhetorical knowledge. Students’ own words are used to describe their transformative experiences related...

...William Conlogue Opening a window on a small department in a medium-sized comprehensive Catholic university, this essay describes how the Marywood English department has wrestled with the challenges of a changing institutional culture, one that has moved from an emphasis on teaching and service...

...Shawn Rubenfeld This article introduces an interdisciplinary service project performed with undergraduate literature students at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. The project, Literary Flowers, was modeled after New York City's Library Way and challenged students to plant a “literary garden...

... that incorporating Downton Abbey and related social media to the study of novels of the early twentieth century enlivens the material, motivating students to enter into a period of history through its literature in service of not only increased historical and literary knowledge but also a more nuanced understanding...

...Rebecca Brittenham; Erin McLaughlin; Connie Snyder Mick This project describes three pedagogical practices that use storytelling to engage students in exploring and inventing their shared community. Through service-learning stories of community members, self-analyses, stories of work, and TED-style...

... distribution and collaboration, raises questions about how this also changes the visibility of faculty's administrative labor, and may contribute to misperceptions about the intellectual work and expertise required for service and writing program administration. We close by proposing design as a critical...

... structures of collaboration—team- teaching, service- learning, performance and interdisciplinary syllabi, and courses taught between campuses and across the globe—Moffat shows how deliberate collaboration can yield more from less. Using examples from colleagues' work in small departments at Dickinson College...

... a valuable service to future scholars of composition studies. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition . Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture. Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh...

...Michael Pennell This essay describes a project in a first-year writing course in which students created video Public Service Announcements. The project resulted from a university-sponsored contest to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus on campus. Illustrating the process of creating such video...

...John Wittman; Mariana Abuan This article argues that graduate education often does not fully prepare students to take on the role of faculty member after graduation because it does not make students aware of the importance of faculty responsibilities such as service. It also suggests...