Space, identity and education : a multi scalar framework / Ceri Brown, Michael Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ceri, author.

Donnelly, Michael (College teacher), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice and education.

Identity (Psychology) in education.

Space--Social aspects.

Space.

Education--Social aspects.

Education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Summary:

Space is a key aspect of education but is badly neglected by researchers and policymakers. Educational institutions are ripped out of context and made to seem like placeless places. This book takes space and its relation to student identity as its main focus. It demonstrates that social justice can never be achieved through policies that ignore this relationship. Its insights and arguments are critical and crucial. Stephen J Ball FBA, Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education, University College London, UK This is a very exciting book that underlines the usefulness of bringing an explicitly geographical lens to bear on educational processes. Including fascinating case studies on the informal learning space of the playground, the spaces of home learning during the pandemic, and digital space, it puts forward an original conceptual argument about how a multi-scalar approach can enhance our understanding of the relationship between education and identity. Rachel Brooks, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK This important and timely text provides a spatial framework and a series of concrete, empirically-informed exemplars for how geographers of education might work towards a more integrative approach to studying the spatialities of identity and social justice in education spaces. Peter Kraftl, Chair in Human Geography, University of Birmingham, UK This book details an innovative multi-scalar framework to examine the intersection of spatial levels in shaping social justice issues in education. Including an examination of key dimensions such as geographic divisions (between and within countries), school design, online learning, home-schooling, and student mobility, the framework is applied to analyse the interrelation between space, identity, and education. The authors reveal how this novel integration of scales is essential for a more comprehensive and probing understanding of educational inequalities. As an example of theoretical interdisciplinarity mobilised to tackle the urgent issues of our time, the twin dimensions of space and identity, discussed at multi-scalar levels, provides an invaluable theoretical resource for scholars and students of education, sociology and geography. Ceri Brown is a Reader in Education at the University of Bath, UK. Michael Donnelly is Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of Bath, UK.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Space, Identity and Education

Theorising Place and Space

Key Propositions on Place and Space

Space, Place and Identity

Culture, Identity and Globalisation: Revising the Agency and Structure Debate in Contemporary Society

Personal Identity and the Claim to Space

Social Identity and the Claim to Space

Learner Identities as a Form of 'Relational' Identity Rooted in Place

A Spatial Lens on Learner Identities

An Ecological System's Approach: Mapping the Spatial Planes of Educational Inequality

Micro-Level: (Formal Educational Settings Such as Nurseries, Schools, Colleges and Universities)

Meso-Level: (Informal and Non-formal Learning Settings as Well as Their Interrelation with Formal Educational Settings)

Exo-Level: Spatial Factors at the Local Level Which Extend Beyond Singular Settings Such as the Role of Neighbourhood, Local and Regional Factors (e.g. Local Government Policy, Local Economies, Media and Housing)

Macro-Level (Spatial Forces Which Exert from National and Cross-national Structures and Their Products)

Researching Space, Identity and Education: Methodologies for the Spatial Scales and Multi-scalar Research

An Integrated Analysis of Different Spatial Planes

References

Chapter 2: A 'Micro'-Spatial Lens on Identity and Education

Introduction

Schools as Micro-Level Settings

The Spatial Construction of Teachers and Learners

Spatial and Temporal Flows of Teachers and Learners

Power and Resistance to Negotiate the Performative Pressures of Schooling

Grouping Practices in the Classroom

A Micro-Lens on Digital Space and Learning in School

The Surveillance of Informal Schooling Spaces

Playground Spaces

Informal Places in School and the Spatial Dimension of Educational Inequalities

Children's Involvement in the Design and Use of Space in School

Concluding Remarks: A Micro-Lens on Schooling Identities

Chapter 3: A 'Meso'-Spatial Lens on Identity and Education

A Meso-Lens on Home Learning During a Global Pandemic

Home Schooling as a Lens into the Home-School Interface

The Educational Affordances of Outdoor Education and the Barriers to Engaging in Nature

Learning in the Community: Building and Affirming Social and Learner Identities

Towards an Identity-Based Agenda for Informal and Non-formal Education

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4: An 'Exo'-Spatial Lens on Identity and Education

The Formation of 'Exo'-Educational Markets by Macro-'Policy' Influences

Neighbourhood Effects on School Access Within an Educational Market

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brown, Ceri, author. Space, identity and education

ISBN:

9783031315350

3031315359

OCLC:

1390440688

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