Monday, August 6, 2007

Green

Green, Ann. "Difficult Stories: Service-Learning, Race, Class, and Whiteness." College Composition and Communication 55 (2003): 276-301.

Green argues for the inclusion of more stories about race and class in our ASL stories (in both scholarship and in the classroom). Foreground identity markers in order to work toward social change. Dealing with race and class is a way to tell "difficult stories" and avoid side-stepping issues of power, which inevitably arise when doing ASL. Race and class help to fill in context in which service happens.

She also suggests that field notes are a better genre than a reflection journal, as notes emphasize analysis and observation, not just feelings.

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