Changing Urban Education

by Pratt-Adams, Simon; Burn, Elizabeth; Maguire, Meg

• ISBN13: 9781847060242
• ISBN10: 1847060242
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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

Author Biography

Simon Pratt-Adams is Director of the PhD Programme, Faculty of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He teaches and researches about urban education. Recently he has been researching the use of mobile learning technologies in urban contexts. Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education, king's College London, UK. She teaches and researches issues of policy and practice in urban contexts. She is lead editor or the Journal of Education Policy. Elizabeth Burn is a retired academic with substantial experience of teaching in urban schools and higher education. She has researched extensively in the field of social justice and is now involved in setting up a community theatre for disadvantaged teenagers.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Using the book	p. 4
Theorizing the Urban
Urban Myths and Urban Lives	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
The idea of the city: reality, metaphor and imagined project	p. 10
Representing the city	p. 13
The city as a social, cultural and economic resource	p. 17
Theorizing the urban	p. 20
Education in the city	p. 21
Conclusion	p. 22
Further reading	p. 22
Useful websites	p. 23
Peopling the City	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Urbanization and its consequences	p. 25
Understanding the city - identity and difference	p. 28
Difference in the city - divisions in the city	p. 31
Insiders and outsiders: an educational dimension	p. 34
Conclusion	p. 35
Further reading	p. 36
Useful websites	p. 36
The Virtual Urban	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Space and time	p. 38
Changing cities	p. 39
Defining and redefining urban community	p. 42
Virtual communities	p. 43
The digital divide	p. 47
Conclusion	p. 48
Further reading	p. 49
Useful websites	p. 49
Urban Education in Changing Times
Culture, Faith and Community	p. 53
Introduction	p. 53
Faith and diversity in the urban setting	p. 54
Faith schools, identity and community	p. 55
From equality of opportunity to social justice	p. 58
Social justice and faith communities	p. 60
Faith schools - cohesive or divisive?	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 64
Further reading	p. 66
Useful websites	p. 66
Urban Education in a Global Context	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
The process of globalization	p. 68
Socio-economic dimension of globalization	p. 69
Diverse, changing and fluid communities	p. 71
The impact of the forces of globalization on urban education	p. 73
Glocal urban education programmes	p. 76
Conclusion	p. 79
Further reading	p. 80
Useful websites	p. 81
Policies in Urban Settings	p. 82
Introduction	p. 82
The origins of urban education policy	p. 83
Urban policy and the welfare state	p. 86
New Labour, challenging schools and urban policy: phase 1	p. 89
New Labour, challenging schools and urban policy: phase 2	p. 92
Conclusion	p. 94
Further reading	p. 95
Useful websites	p. 95
Urban Education Policy into Practice
Critical Urban Pedagogy	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Paulo Freire, reading the world as well as the word	p. 100
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed	p. 100
bell hooks, teaching to transgress	p. 105
Feminist critical pedagogy	p. 107
Critical pedagogy in urban settings	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 113
Further reading	p. 113
Useful websites	p. 114
Early Years Education in the Urban Context	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
What is Early Years education?	p. 117
Historical overview of Early Years provision	p. 117
Continuities in Early Years provision	p. 120
The experiences of (some) urban Early Years teachers	p. 123
Current policy in Early Years (urban)	p. 127
Policy alternatives	p. 129
Conclusion	p. 131
Further reading	p. 131
Useful websites	p. 132
Urban Education and New and Emergent Learning Technologies	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
New and emergent technologies and E-learning	p. 134
Changing schooling	p. 135
Inclusion and exclusion	p. 136
Home access	p. 139
Transforming education?	p. 141
E-learning in urban contexts	p. 143
Mobile urban learning	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 147
Further reading	p. 147
Useful websites	p. 147
Changing Urban Education
Justice, Hope and Vision	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Continuity over time	p. 152
Changing urban education	p. 154
Justice, hope and vision	p. 156
Further reading	p. 158
Usefui websites	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 160
Subject Index	p. 183
Author Index	p. 188
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