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.
By:
Ajay Heble
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781487500795
ISBN 10: 1487500793
Series: Cultural Spaces
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 10 April 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Ajay Heble is a professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies as well as the director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph.
Reviews for Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
""Classroom Action is a book of passionate praxis, strongest when students and instructor dig into the pragmatic details of a project or course: what does theory look like, and how does it transform, on the ground in real time? "" -- Julian Gunn * Canadian Literature Reviews, 234 Autumn 2017 *
