For six years the Food Security Research Network at Lakehead University, Canada, has been engaged in an interdisciplinary theme-based service-learning initiative focusing on food security. Informed by complexity theory, the contextual fluidity partnership model brings community partners, students, and faculty into a nexus through which new…

In "History and Imagination," elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting history, students will become…

Describes the five main urban studies centers in London (England). Recommends that more urban studies centers should be established with secure funding, that urban study centers should act as school and community resources, and that different agencies should join forces to provide funds for a network of urban studies centers. (TW)