Community Service and Critical Teaching

Definitions:

• individualism
• meritocracy
• equal opportunity
• tutoring
• democracy
• social justice

Distinctions:

• questions about social structures, ideology, and social justice are not automatically raised by community service
• If students regard social problems as chiefly or only personal, then they will not search beyond the person for a systemic explanation. 
• the composition course is not devoted to literacy tutoring, but rather to the study of literacy and schooling
• a sense of life as a communal project, an understanding of the way that social institutions affect our lives, and a sense that our responsibility for social justice includes but also carries beyond personal acts of charity

How this pedagogy supports student's public literate actions
What they ask of teachers who desire to support such actions

texts:

• Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary
• Perspectives on Literacy, anthology edited by Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose
• Kozol's Savage Inequalities