Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jul 2009 Open Access

Writing Home or Writing As the Community: Toward a Theory of Recursive Spatial Movement for Students of Color in Service-Learning Courses

Terese Guinsatao Monberg

Abstract

Most discussions of service-learning focus on the potential pitfalls of working with students who inhabit relatively privileged positions. While this crucial concern deserves attention, it has limited our focus by encouraging students to cross borders, to encounter people different from themselves rather than to encounter something different within themselves or within their own communities. This approach may be particularly problematic for students of color whose education for social justice, citizenship, and historical consciousness might best be furthered by a writing, or might I say a “re-writing,” pedagogy that emphasizes recursive spatial movement through place over time—a “writing as the community” service-learning paradigm.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2009-07-01
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10.59236/rjv8i3pp21-51
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