Education, Disadvantage and Place : : Making the Local Matter / / Kirstin Kerr, Alan Dyson, Carlo Raffo.
In England, as in countries across the world, shrinking public funding, growing localism, and increased school autonomy make tackling the link between education, disadvantage and place more important than ever. Challenging current thinking, this important book is the first to focus on the role of ar...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why place matters in education
- Local education systems as products of place: a case study
- Learning from the past
- Learning from the present
- A rationale for a new generation of area-based initiatives
- Developing understandings of place as a basis for intervention
- Evaluation and monitoring
- Governance and accountability
- Children and places in hard times: some concluding thoughts
- References
- Index