Schools for Our Cities : Urban Learning in the 21st Century

by Riddell, Richard; Brighouse, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781858562933
• ISBN10: 1858562937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Schools serving urban areas are at the forefront of state education and on their success depends a high quality public service accessible to all. Urban schools worldwide have received much attention from national and local policy makers, not all of it helpful. This book looks at how provision can be brought to a high standard."Schools for Our Cities" plots the social, political and economic changes of the past thirty years which have shaped the context for the current work of urban educators. Ranging from international perspectives to local case studies, it examines the nature of the particular educational challenges they face and the implications for teaching and leadership of the ways inner-city children learn. The book concludes with an assessment of what schools in urban areas - individually and collectively - need to be like to be successful and how this might be achieved.In writing this book for policy makers, academics, teachers, heads and school governors, Richard Riddell has drawn on his considerable experience as a Director of Education and as senior education officer in local authorities with substantial numbers of urban schools in the UK.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Prologue	1	(8)
The crisis narrative and its consequences	9	(12)
Stratification and the emergence of bottom strata schools in urban areas	21	(18)
The context for learning and teaching in bottom strata schools	39	(22)
Learning in bottom strata schools	61	(20)
The curriculum and pedagogy of bottom strata schools	81	(22)
The development of learning schools and the implications for leadership	103	(18)
Government policy in the UK and the work of bottom strata schools	121	(20)
Schools for our cities: current trends, future prospects	141	(18)
Bibliography	159