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.

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

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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.