Table of Contents

About the Authors. Introduction. 1 Food for More Than Thought: Course-Based Action Research on Corner Stores in Chicago (Howard Rosing). 2 Participatory Action Research and the University Classroom (Beth Skilken Catlett and Irene Clare Beck). 3 Healthy Wednesdays in Our Hood: An Exploration of an Anthropological Service-Learning With Premeds (Sam Beck). 4 Youth Take Charge: Social Action in a University-Community Partnership (Joan Arches). 5 Practicing Active Learning: Introducing Urban Geography and Engaging Community in Pilsen, Chicago (Winifred Curran, Euan Hague, and Harpreet Gill). 6 Paradoxes of Praxis: Community-Based Learning at a Community-Based University (Daniel Block and Mark J. Bouman). 7 Action Research in a Visual Anthropology Class: Lessons, Frustrations, and Achievements (S. Elizabeth Bird, Jess Paul Ambiee, and James Kuzin). 8 Collaborative Action Research at Interchange: A U.K. Model (David Hall and Irene Hall). 9 Checks and Balances: The Aftermath of Course-Based Action Research (Nila Ginger Hofman). Index.

About the Author

Nila Ginger Hofman is assistant professor of anthropology at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She has been teaching and conducting research amongst hidden urban populations in Chicago and in Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Renewed Survival: Jewish Community Life in Croatia (Lexington Books, 2006) and a number of articles that record the lives of hidden populations including undocumented immigrants and injection drug users in Chicago. Howard Rosing is an anthropologist and executive director of the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He has conducted research on issues of food access in the Dominican Republic and the United States.