Advocacy Service Learning
Bridging Community and Classroom:
Integrating across class levels, using the example of
“One Billion Rising”
Dr. Taine Duncan,
Philosophy and Religion,
Director of Gender Studies
The Starting Point: Hysteria
Honors Seminar Spring 2014
http://www.onebillionrising.org/14116/theres-forcecan-heal-trauma-think-sohini-chakraborty/
50% of female psychiatric patients are sexually
assaulted. A larger percentage than the general 1 in 3
women, globally, who will be beaten or raped.
Students in my Upper Division
Led, While Students in my Lower
Division GRC Assisted
“Alexandra Doolittle, recipient of the ‘Leadership in
Service-Learning’ award was chosen for her leadership
role in the service-learning portion of her honor’s
philosophy course. Doolittle is an English Major who
led efforts to promote “One Billion Rising” which is an
international movement to raise awareness for the one
billion women who will face domestic or sexual
violence in their lifetime.”
• http://uca.edu/servicelearning/new
s/
Dancing in the Student
Center
http://www.pikore.com/ucarising
By promoting the event online using Twitter,
Instagram, and the One Billion Rising website,
students were able to advertise and post participation
in real time. This way, they not only reached students
from UCA in the Student Center, but people all over
the world who are part of the One Billion Rising
Campaign.
Bringing it Back to the
Classroom
My Upper Division Students:
Reflected on the data they collected for the bookmarks.
Related violence, psych care, and gender data to the
complex history of “hysteria.”
My Lower Division Students:
Most of their work came after the event. I have included
their assignment sheet. They connected the experience
and the data with specific course readings.