From A Service-Learning to A Social-Change Model

Catherine Savini

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 2019 web Open Access

From A Service-Learning to A Social-Change Model

Catherine Savini

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Tutor education courses that prepare students to serve as peer writing consultants often include service learning; a typical service-learning tutor education course involves sending students to tutor in local schools, usually in underserved neighborhoods. Existing writing center scholarship on service learning tends to overlook the limitations of this model. This article advances a radically different approach for tutor education where the course acts as an incubator for social change on campus. Informed by the principles advanced by the critical service learning movement, the course described here invites students to design and implement campus-based community building projects. Ultimately, this article demonstrates that a course focused on community building, rather than tutoring theory and strategies, can effectively prepare students to serve as peer writing consultants while imparting a heightened awareness of social inequities and a deep investment in the campus community.

Journal: Praxis: A Writing Center Journal
Published: 2019
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Topics: service learning writing centers
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