Community-Based Learning and the Work of Literature

Foreword.

Introduction.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Can Civic Engagement Rescue the Humanities? (David D. Cooper).

2. Cultural Studies, Compassion, and the Promise of Community-Based Learning (David S. Malachuk).

3. Servicing Reading: Community Work and the Revaluation of Literary Study (Kara L. Mollis).

4. The Humanities as a Vocation (Arthur Strum).

5. Talking and Walking: Literary Work as Public Work (Anna Sims Bartel).

6. To Serve, Perchance to Learn: A Play in Four Acts (Eric Daigre, Elizabeth Hutter, Mitchell Ogden, Marie-Therese C. Sulit).

7. Leer y escribir la frontera: Language, Literature, and Community Engagement in the San Diego- Tijuana Borderlands (Kevin Guerrieri).

8. Rewriting the Egg: Community-Based Learning, German Literature, and Intercultural Competence (Isolde Mueller).

9. Two Old Women and a Mature Approach to Service-Learning (Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien).

10. Indigenous Theory and Service-Learning: A Dakota Case Study (Penelope Kelsey).

11. Search and Service: Discovering Primary and Secondary Source Information (Nina V. Salmon).

12. Reconnecting the Disconnect: Exploring the Links Between Literary Studies and Community Service (Susan Danielson).

13. The Rhetoric of Healing: Community-Based Learning From an Ecocritical Perspective (Breyan Strickler).

14. Taking Literature to the Children: Community-Based Learning and Children's Literature (Marilyn Melahn Senter).

15. Segue Into the Community: A Wired Community-Based Learning Course Proposal for Writers on a Two-Year Campus (Eric Melbye).

Index.