College Composition and Communication
Dec 2002
“And Now That I Know Them”: Composing Mutuality in a Service Learning Course
Abstract
In this essay, I turn to contemporary feminist object-relations theory to understand the efforts of students in a service learning course to push beyond the usual subject-object, active-passive dualisms that pervade community-based literacy projects and to compose instead complex representations in which all participants are composed as active, as knowing, and as exceeding any single construction of who we all are. I also argue for placing writing and the problems of composing at the center of such courses.
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- College Composition and Communication
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- 2002-12-01
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- 10.58680/ccc20021483
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