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Education and the City: Theory, History and Contemporary Practice book cover

1st Edition

Education and the City Theory, History and Contemporary Practice

Edited By Gerald Grace Copyright 1984
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus questions to do with class, gender and race relations in education; concepts of equality of opportunity and of social justice; and controversies about the wider political economic and social context of... Read more

PART 1: THE STUDY OF THE URBAN
1. Urban education: policy science or critical scholarship? Gerald Grace

2. Urban education and the current crisis, Rachel Sharp

3. Theorising the urban: some approaches for students of education, Gerald Grace

PART 2: HISTORICAL LOCATION

4. Reconstructing the history of urban education in America, Sol Cohen

5. The university of settlements, class relations and the city, Tony Evans

6. The urban, the domestic and education for girls, Mica Nava

PART 3: CONTEMPORARY POLICY AND PRACTICE

7. Policy for schools in inner London, Frances Morrell

8. Education in New York City: public schools for whom? Dale Mann

10. Teachers for the inner city: change and continuity, Christopher Crook

Biography

Gerald Grace

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