---------------------------------------------------- Service Learning and English Studies: Rethinking "Public" Service by Aaron Schutz and Anne Ruggles Gere Originally published in _College English_, Feb. 1998 Full text: http://www.ncte.org/forums/sles/sles.html Discussion forum: http://www.ncte.org/forums/sles/ ---------------------------------------------------- Community/service learning projects and approaches have percolated up in a wide range of academic discipline in recent years, as Aaron and Anne note in the introduction to their College English article. The emergence of service learning as a viable approach to education across the curriculum implies not just a new pedagogical strategy but new approaches to learning in general. We may find it necessary to rethink roles and practices that have until recently seemed relatively eternal. This article suggests some new ways to think about English studies and writing education, about the roles of "student," "tutor," and "teacher," and about how we relate to the world outside the classroom walls. We invite you to read "Service Learning and English Studies" and to offer your perspectives, ideas, questions, and criticisms on the subject of service learning, its possibilities and its problems. --Eric Crump --------------------- Thanks to Aaron Schutz, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Louise Smith for granting permission to put the _College English_ article on the web for the purpose of encouraging discussion.