Full Description
Building on the concept of a "teaching community," Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community beyond campus. Utilizing a case study approach, the chapters in this volume are conceptually and practically useful for teachers and students involved in thinking about and implementing community-based forms of teaching and learning.
Classroom Action links teaching and research in genuinely innovative ways, and provides a range of dissemination strategies to inspire broad-based outcomes and impact among a diverse range of knowledge-users. It marks a major advance on the ways in which the relationship among pedagogy, human rights, and community-based learning has hitherto been theorized and practiced. The community-based learning at the centre of Classroom Action prompts a radically new means of thinking about what teachers do in the classroom, and how and why they do it.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
Ajay Heble
Chapter One
Access Interventions: Experiments in Critical Community Engagement
Elizabeth Jackson and Ingrid Mündel
Chapter Two
The Guelph Speaks! Anthology: Storytelling as Praxis in Community-Facing Pedagogy
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, Paul Danyluk, and Robert Zacharias
Chapter Three
In Action / Inaction: Political Theatre, Social Change, and Challenging Privilege
Brendan Arnott
Chapter Four
Is This Project "Skin Deep"?: Looking Back at a Community-Facing Photo-Art Initiative
Gregory Fenton
Chapter Five
Reflections on Dialogic Theatre for Social Change: Co-creation of The Other End of the Line
Majdi Bou-Matar, Brendan Main, Morvern McNie, and Natalie Onuška
Coda: Sign Up Here
Ajay Heble
Works Cited
Webography
Human Rights Education: Resources for Research and Teaching
Compiled by Rachel Collins, Ajay Heble, Cory Legassic, and Bart Vautour
Contributors
Index
