Re: Seeking info about SL and poetry

Title: Re: Seeking info about SL and poetry

The following four sources don't speak to the exact question you raise, but they circle around it.

In 2003, the journal Language and Learning Across the Disciplines devoted a special issue to Poetry Across the Curriculum

http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/archives.cfm#llad

Ross Talarico's book Spreading the Word: Poetry and the Survival of Community in America (Duke UP) and Robert Pinsky's Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry (Princeton UP) address the relation of poetry to democratic action.

Chapter 5 ("Literature, Culture and Social Reflection") of my Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader (Longman) scaffolds some ways to use poetry in the SL classroom.

Parts of Robert Coles'  The Call of Stories and The Call of Service reflect on the role of poetry (esp. the work of WC Williams) in shaping learning, critical reflection and action.

Tom Deans

At 1:28 PM -0400 7/29/04, Shari Galiardi wrote:

> Greetings SL friends.  I am working
> with a faculty member that is seeking information for a research
> proposal.  I told her that I would send her note (see below) out
> the the SL listserv.  Does anyone have information to share with
> her?  Please direct your responses to Ann-Marie Clark at
> clarkam@appstate.edu. Thanks, as usual, for all the help that you are
> able to provide!  -Shari
>
> Shari,
>
> I'm trying to prepare a proposal for AERA teacher education division.
> The mentors I sent the paper to suggested I "connect my case
> study" to others in this field of research. I have looked, but
> have not been able to find any studies that use poetry as a form of
> reflection in a way that "claims that it can deepen a student's
> understanding" of what transpires in service-learning. I have
> also not been able to find anything that has been written about
> changing the perspective of the privileged about poverty through
> service-learning.
> I know there must be something out there and I just have not looked in
> the right places or looked hard enough. I'm running out of time. Could
> you lend a helping hand?
>
> Thanks, Ann-Marie
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Ann-Marie Clark, Ph.D.
> Department of Curriculum and Instruction
> Reich College of Education
> Appalachian State University
>
> No one cares how much you know, until
> they know how much you care.

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