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Classroom Action

Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

by (author) Ajay Heble

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2017
Category
General, Philosophy & Social Aspects
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487500795
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $66.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487520588
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $35.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487511845
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $26.95

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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.

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.

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Editorial 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? "

Canadian Literature Reviews, 234 Autumn 2017