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Toward An Ecofeminist Embodied Pedagogy: A Study Of Difference In Online And Offline Community Writing Courses, Rachel Dortin
Toward An Ecofeminist Embodied Pedagogy: A Study Of Difference In Online And Offline Community Writing Courses, Rachel Dortin
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Toward an Ecofeminist Embodied Pedagogy: A Study of Difference in Online and Offline Community Writing Courses argues that service-learning and community-engaged learning (SCEL) often fail to present community partners as real, embodied beings. Rather, students often believe that there is an “us” (the university) and a “them” (the community). Entering community partnerships with this perspective can be damaging, for both students and community partners, and result in unsuccessful collaborations. My dissertation responds to this problem by offering an ecofeminist, embodied pedagogy (EEP) as a solution. I argue that students are eager to learn about difference and that instructors need to …