Geographies of Alternative Education: Diverse Learning Spaces for Children and Young People

ISBN-13: 9781447300496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 304 str.

Peter Kraftl

Opis

One of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education, "Geographies of Alternative Education" offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater to children and young people. Using original research conducted at over fifty learning spaces, it demonstrates the importance of a geographical lens for understanding alternative education. In doing so, it develops new theories on autonomy, emotion and affect, intergenerational relations, and a number of other topics.

Spis treści

Introduction; Conceptual frameworks: towards geographies of alternative education; Alternative learning spaces in the UK: background to the case studies used in this book; Connection/disconnection: positioning alternative learning spaces; Mess/order: materials, timings, feelings; Movement/embodiment: learning habits (I); Inter/personal relations: scale, love and learning habits (II); Towards the ‘good life’: alternative visions of learning, love and life-itelf; Conclusion: Geographies of alternative education and the value of autonomous learning.