This collection of original work draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. Drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors to this book work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalization, race, markets and school choice, suburbanization, regional and rural settings, and youth and student culture.
This collection of original work draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. Drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticat...
With urbanisation as one of the central concerns for the future, relationships between the city, educational policy, and social and educational inequality deserve sustained examination. This book offers contribution to these areas of study. It examines the relationships between educational policy, space and place.
With urbanisation as one of the central concerns for the future, relationships between the city, educational policy, and social and educational inequa...
This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory.
The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalisation, race, markets and school choice, suburbanisation,...
This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory.
Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices. The chapters in this collection speak to two complementary but analytically distinguishable aspects of the interplay between education, globalization, cities, and neoliberalism. The first aspect relates to the macro relationships between these powerful global forces on the one hand, and cities and their schools on the other. In particular the book considers the stratifying dynamics that exacerbate...
Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant imp...
Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education policy, specifically those relating to education markets and school choice, enable the pervasiveness of a white, middle-class, re-imagining of inner-city areas, and render race "(in)visible." With urbanization posited as one of the central concerns for the future of the planet, relationships between...
Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education pol...
This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into contemporary critical theories and their take up in education policy studies, the book offers a generative invitation to further reading, thought and exploration. Instead of prescribing how theory should be used, the contributors elaborate on a set of possibilities for researching and critiquing education policy.
Education Policy and Contemporary Theory explores examples of how theoretical approaches generate a variety of questions...
This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into co...
This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into contemporary critical theories and their take up in education policy studies, the book offers a generative invitation to further reading, thought and exploration. Instead of prescribing how theory should be used, the contributors elaborate on a set of possibilities for researching and critiquing education policy.
Education Policy and Contemporary Theory explores examples of how theoretical approaches generate a variety of questions...
This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into co...
The phrase the edge of race can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns. The first of these is that while race is increasingly on the periphery of education policy with a growing disregard shown for racist inequities, as education systems become dominated by market-driven concerns it is important that we map the shifting relations of race in neoliberal politics and policies. The second concern is that at this time, within and outside the spaces of the academy, even to mention race equity is to risk condemnation, marginalization, and ridicule.
The authors in...
The phrase the edge of race can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns. The first of these is that while race is incre...
In the past decade, poststructural policy analysis in education has evolved, primarily focusing on disrupting dominant narratives about education policy research, development and implementation, and the aims and outcomes of the policy-research nexus. This book originates from an Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World workshop held in conjunction with the University of British Columbia and sponsored by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant. The workshop focused on one over-arching question: To what extent can poststructural theories offer...
In the past decade, poststructural policy analysis in education has evolved, primarily focusing on disrupting dominant narratives about education p...
