Geographies of alternative education : diverse learning spaces for children and young people / Peter Kraftl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraftl, Peter

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative education--Great Britain.

Alternative education.

Alternative schools--Great Britain.

Alternative schools.

Human geography.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

ix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2013.

Summary:

This book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative spaces outside mainstream education-including Steiner, human-scale and forest schools, care farms and homeschooling. Based on original research with teachers, parents and young people at over 50 learning spaces, Geographies of alternative education demonstrates the importance of a geographical lens of understanding alternative education. In so doing, it develops contemporary theories of autonomy, emotion/affect, habit, intergenerational relations and life-itself. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduates in the fields of geography, sociology, education and youth studies. Given ongoing concerns about the state's role in providing children's education, and an increase in the number of alternative education, and an increase in the number of alternative education provides in the UK and elsewhere, the book also highlights several critical questions for policy makers and practitioners. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Conceptual frameworks: towards geographies of alternative education 23

3 Alternative learning spaces in the UK: background to the case studies used in this book 55

4 Connection/disconnection: positioning alternative learning spaces 89

5 Mess/order: materials, timings, feelings 119

6 Movement/embodiment: learning habits (I) 151

7 Inter/personal relations: scale, love and learning habits (II) 177

8 Towards the 'good life': alternative visions of learning, love and life-itself 204

9 Conclusion: geographies of alternative education and the value of autonomous learning spaces 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278) and index.

ISBN:

1447300491 (hardcover0

9781447300496

OCLC:

809911184