Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2010 Open Access

An (Em)bodied Workshop: When Service-Learning Gets Bawdy

Brenda Glascott

Abstract

An (Em)bodied Workshop: When Service Learning Gets Bawdy explores the ways a student's perception about which bodies are and are not sexualized creates problems for that student when she attempts to run a writing group for senior citizens with Alzheimer's disease. This essay suggests that students engaging in service learning may import constructions of a mind/body split common in school settings to service learning sites as a way to authorize their presence in these sites. Students engaged in service learning need to be pushed to examine the ways their constructions of their work may erase the body.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2010-04-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv9i2pp70-88
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