Learning Service: Reading Service as Text

Abstract

In this essay, I focus on the service in service learning. I consider what might happen if the term "service learning" was inverted--to learning service. I wonder if such an inversion can help instructors, students, and community partners critically evaluate the service they do. I describe "reading service as text" as a tool for learning service. To read service as text, learners question the goals, values, forms, and assumptions embedded ln distinctive forms of service. The guiding questions fer this essay are: (1) What does it mean to learn service, (2) how can service be read as text, and (3) how can best practices be reconsidered as standards for service?

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2007-04-01
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10.59236/rjv6i1pp67-86
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