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

lntercultural Dialogue and the Production of a Rhetorical Borderland: Service-Learning in a Multicultural and Multilingual Context

Dominic Micer ; David Hitchcock ; Anne Statham

Abstract

This paper reports the process and outcomes of a multidisciplinary service-learning project in a major metropolitan area in southwestern Indiana that focuses on determining, then meeting, the needs of our growing Latino/a population. We discuss three service-learning courses involved with this project - one completed, one in progress, and one being planned. Deploying a theoretical apparatus emerging from sociology and intercultural rhetorical theory, we discuss our students' interaction with this rhetorical borderland and the processes of becoming and hybrid thinking that occurred in the process.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2009-04-01
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10.59236/rjv8i2pp140-170
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modern rhetorical theory rhetorical criticism cultural rhetorics service learning race and writing
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