HomeBlogService-Learning Refresh: Critical Service Learning: Letters with Incarcerated Peopleby Matt WittsteinAugust 19, 2024 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Land Acknowledgement In this episode, Matt Wittstein interviews Lucy Arnold from Season 1, Episode 1 – “Critical Service Learning: Letters with Incarcerated People.” Dr. Arnold is the Director of Educational Partnerships the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has been connecting students with incarcerated people in her courses. She discusses her experiences with this service-learning activity and highlights several student experiences as well as a few challenges along the way. View a transcript of this episode. This episode was hosted by Matt Wittstein, edited by Olivia Taylor, and produced by Matt Wittstein in collaboration with Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning. About the Guest Dr. Lucy Arnold works in teacher education and community engagement in her role as Director of Educational Partnerships at University of North Carolina Charlotte. She also teaches courses in education and English. Her research interests include service-learning, critical pedagogy, and community engagement; her first book, Transformative Critical Service-Learning: Theory and Practice for Engaging Community College and University Learners in Building an Activist Mindset, with co-author Heather Coffey was published in 2022. Dr. Arnold is a prison abolitionist and runs a pen pal program for incarcerated people. She also participates in too many book clubs, writes poetry and fiction, practices yoga, runs, and plays video games. You can learn more about Dr. Arnold on her blog, Intertextualities or you can check out her Star Trek Podcast, “Before the Future Came.” Listen to the Original Episode Critical Service Learning: Letters with Incarcerated People Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 1 Dr. Lucy Arnold from the University of North Carolina Charlotte shares with the show her plans for having students write letters with incarcerated people. Panelists Vanessa Drew-Branch, Phillip Motley, and Sophie Miller… Resources Related to this Episode Arnold, Lucy. 2024. “Forging Communities in Contested Spaces: Critical Media Literacy as a Social Justice Practice.” Essay. In Teaching for Equity, Justice, and Antiracism with Digital Literacy Practices, 1st ed., edited by Meghan E. Barnes and Rick Marlatt, 87–103. Routledge. Coffey, Heather, and Lucy Arnold. 2022. Transformative Critical Service-Learning: Theory and Practice for Engaging Community College and University Learners in Building an Activist Mindset. Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press. Kaba, Mariame. We do this ’til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and Transforming Justice. Edited by Tamara Nopper. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Press, 2021. “The Visiting Room.” The Visiting Room Project – The Visiting Room. Accessed August 7, 2024. https://www.visitingroomproject.org/. Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The origins of our discontents. New York: Random House, 2023.
