Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2005 Open Access

The Service Learning Writing Project: Re-Writing the Humanities Through Service-Learning and Public Work

David Cooper ; Eric Fretz

Abstract

From its beginnings in 1992, the Service-Learning Writing Project at Michigan State University has viewed the composition classroom as a place where rhetorical processes and democratic practices naturally converge. A number of core democratic principles, pedagogical challenges, ongoing conversations, and shared convictions about education for democracy continue to animate and energize the Project’s faculty—including a consistent emphasis on encouraging democratic discourses and learning practices in the writing classroom, a search for pedagogical techniques that connect theory and practice, and efforts to reinvigorate the teaching of the Humanities as important and necessary cultural work in the public interest.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2005-09-01
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10.59236/rjv5i1pp133-152
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rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy service learning teacher development
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