Schooling the Rustbelt Kids: Making the Difference in Changing Times

ISBN-13: 9780367719296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str.

Pat Thomson

Opis

Examining primary and secondary schools in disadvantaged areas in a post-industrial city, Schooling the Rustbelt Kids reopens the debate about inequality in schooling arguing that current outcomes-based and standardised policies for disadvantaged schools are not effective.

Spis treści

Series editor's introduction

First words

1. Vicki and Thanh

2. The city - Photo essay

3. Place of trouble/troubled places

4. bringing particularity into site

5. Rhetoric and resources

6. Staffing matters

7. The policy terrain

8. Principal acts/acts of principle

9. Discourses of equity

10. Doing justice

Appendix

Notes

References

Acknowledgements

Index

O autorze

Pat Thomson is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. She is well-known for her innovative work as principal of disadvantaged schools in Adelaide. She has also worked in education policy and speaks regularly at conferences in Australia, North America and the UK.