Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
Contents:
"The Selected resources for research and teaching in service learning and literature / Roberta Rosenberg. Service learning in American literature. Everybody reads : public literature programs as agents of social exchange and connection / Ann Marie Fallon -- Literature classroom, college library, and reading publics : building collaborative critical reading networks / Emily VanDette -- Completing the circle : teaching literature as community-based learning / Ivy Schweitzer -- Reliving and remaking the Harlem Resistance / Scott Hicks -- Service learning in English and world literature. Satire, sentimentalism, and civic engagement : from eighteenth-century Britain to the twenty-first-century writing course / Elizabeth K. Goodhue -- Shake it up after-school : service learning, Shakespeare, and performance as interpretation / Matthew C. Hansen -- Learning across "Different Zones" : bridging the gap between "Two Nations" through community engagement / Diana C. Archibald -- Critical service learning and literary study in Spanish / Lisa Rubin, Jennifer Leeman -- Service learning in creative nonfiction and memoir. Generation(s) of narratives : life writing and digital storytelling / Kristina Lucenko -- "The boldness of imagination" : illness narratives outside the classroom / Kathleen BeĢres Rogers -- Care, compassion, and the examined life : combining creative nonfiction and community engagement in a first-year seminar / Joan Wagner -- Service learning in literature based writing. Teaching literature to raise a voice in the first-year writing course / Elizabeth Parfitt -- "Beneath thatched shelters, we paint wide-brimmed straw hats" : creative writing and social justice / Claudia Monpere McIsaac -- Service learning in cross disciplinary studies. Literature goes to prison : a reciprocal service-learning project / Carol Tyx, Mary Vermillion -- Building empathy through service learning and narratives of sexual violence / Robin J. Barrow -- Sustainable harvests : food justice, service learning, and environmental justice pedagogy / Sarah D. Wald -- Selected resources. Selected resources for research and teaching in service learning and literature / Roberta Rosenberg.
Summary:
"Whether through a public literacy project that demonstrates the relevance of literary study or community-based research that brings literary theory to life, student collaboration with community partners brings social awareness to the study of literary texts and helps students and teachers engage in literature in new ways"--Back cover.
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