Transforming learning in schools and communities
Subtitle: the remaking of education for a cosmopolitan society
By: edited by Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson.
Contributors: Lingard, Bob.; Nixon, Jon.; Ranson, Stewart.
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781847060617
Subjects: Community and school; Education and globalization; Democracy and education; Cosmopolitanism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Education for a globalized world: policy and pedagogic possibilities / Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson; title: Deparochializing education: re-envisioning education in ASEAN / Aaron Koh; title: Deferring dystopia: the sustainable city, urban policy and education markets / Kalervo Gulson; title: Place, space and knowledge: children in the village and the city / Pia Christensen; title: Public space, participation and expressive arts / Morwenna Griffiths and Hamish Ross; title: Education and its cosmopolitan possibilities / Fazal Rizvi; title: Relationships of virtue: justice as practice / Jon Nixon; title: Capability formation and education / Melanie Walker; title: Remaking civic formation: transforming politics and the cosmopolitan school / Terri Seddon; title: A school for citizens: civic learning and democratic action in the learning democracy / Gert Biesta; title: Re-constituting education governance for cosmopolitan society; title: Pedagogic mediations / Stewart Ranson; title: Pedagogies of indifference: research, policy and practice / Bob Lingard; title: Dialogue, inquiry and the construction of learning communities / Gordon Wells; title: The production of space for learning / Nick Boreham; title: The social, cultural and linguistic significance of complementary schools / Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge; title: Participation, policy and the changing conditions of childhood / Alan Prout; title: Schools and urban regeneration: challenges and possibilities / Pat Thomson.