Changing Urban Education

Name: Changing Urban Education
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ISBN: 9781847060242

ISBN-10: 1847060242

ISBN-13: 9781847060242

Edition: 2009

Authors: Simon Pratt-Adams, Elizabeth Burn, Meg Maguire, Richard Race

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Introduces the debate surrounding teaching and learning in urban settings in contemporary Britain, and the impact this has on education.

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.13" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Meg Maguire taught for many years in London schools, including a period as a headteacher. Her research interests include education policy and practice, social justice issues, the life and work of school-teachers, teacher education and the challenges of inner-city schooling. She is Professor of Sociology of Education in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King s College London, UK. She has extensive experience of supervising research with undergraduate, masters and doctoral students in educational studies and has a long-standing concern with ethics in research. Her most recent book "How schools do Policy. Policy enactments in secondary schools "(Routledge, 2012) is…

Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Roehampton University, UK.



Series Editors' Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Using the book



Theorizing the Urban



Urban Myths and Urban Lives


Introduction


The idea of the city: reality, metaphor and imagined project


Representing the city


The city as a social, cultural and economic resource


Theorizing the urban


Education in the city


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Peopling the City


Introduction


Urbanization and its consequences


Understanding the city - identity and difference


Difference in the city - divisions in the city


Insiders and outsiders: an educational dimension


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



The Virtual Urban


Introduction


Space and time


Changing cities


Defining and redefining urban community


Virtual communities


The digital divide


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Urban Education in Changing Times



Culture, Faith and Community


Introduction


Faith and diversity in the urban setting


Faith schools, identity and community


From equality of opportunity to social justice


Social justice and faith communities


Faith schools - cohesive or divisive?


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Urban Education in a Global Context


Introduction


The process of globalization


Socio-economic dimension of globalization


Diverse, changing and fluid communities


The impact of the forces of globalization on urban education


Glocal urban education programmes


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Policies in Urban Settings


Introduction


The origins of urban education policy


Urban policy and the welfare state


New Labour, challenging schools and urban policy: phase 1


New Labour, challenging schools and urban policy: phase 2


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Urban Education Policy into Practice



Critical Urban Pedagogy


Introduction


Paulo Freire, reading the world as well as the word


The Pedagogy of the Oppressed


bell hooks, teaching to transgress


Feminist critical pedagogy


Critical pedagogy in urban settings


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Early Years Education in the Urban Context


Introduction


What is Early Years education?


Historical overview of Early Years provision


Continuities in Early Years provision


The experiences of (some) urban Early Years teachers


Current policy in Early Years (urban)


Policy alternatives


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Urban Education and New and Emergent Learning Technologies


Introduction


New and emergent technologies and E-learning


Changing schooling


Inclusion and exclusion


Home access


Transforming education?


E-learning in urban contexts


Mobile urban learning


Conclusion


Further reading


Useful websites



Changing Urban Education



Justice, Hope and Vision


Introduction


Continuity over time


Changing urban education


Justice, hope and vision


Further reading


Usefui websites


Bibliography


Subject Index


Author Index