Table of 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

Promotional Information

"Classroom Action offers a range of imaginative and inspiring ideas which both teachers and students will find compelling. The contributors demonstrate in empirical and engaging ways how education can shape human subjects through action/reflection and how that shaping can be accomplished in dialogue with multiple communities. It will be extremely useful for educators interested in critical education and social change and for those struggling to address university/community relations." -- Honor Ford-Smith, Associate Professor, Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice Program, York University

About the Author

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

"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)