Counterpublics in Public Housing: Reframing the Politics of Service Learning

Definitions:

• Subaltern Counterpublics
• service learning
• public sphere
• community development
• mythoform
• love ethic
• public homeplace
• rhetorical space
• personal growth
• public writing

Distinctions:

• point is not that one form of rhetorical work is better than the other, but that we need to stay grounded in the rhetorical practices of the communities we wish to serve if we are to have any hope of successfully partnering with these communities.
• christian love forms the basis of moral and intellecual development
• The term"public homeplace" blurs the boundary between the private sphere of personal development and the public sphere of argument and advocacy
• The mythoform's power is its heuristic capacity to enable leaders to model preferred behavior and values
• The concern about personal growth in the service-learning literature has been that
  it may encourage a detachment from social analysis of injustice and naïve identification with the other
•  the students experienced what they experienced primarily because they were embraced by a Christian love ethic that takes the individual (and individual development) as the primary unit of analysis. They were encouraged to grow into a much broader conception of themselves as members of the human family.*
• Critics would likely say that the making of a new public sphere ought to make room for advocacy, not just cross-cultural understanding [but] we may not be lucky enough to see deeper structural changes in society take place on the academic calendar.

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

texts:

• Nancy Fraser
• Welch
• Linda Flower

*this seems totally contradictory to me. I didn't really get what this article was trying to do with the "love ethic" and the "public homeplace"