Education, disadvantage and place : making the local matter / Kirstin Kerr, Alan Dyson and Carlo Raffo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerr, Kirstin, author.

Dyson, Alan, author.

Raffo, Carlo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with social disabilities--Education--Great Britain.

Children with social disabilities.

Youth with social disabilities--Education--Great Britain.

Youth with social disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenging current thinking, this important book is the first to focus on the role of area-based initiatives to tackle the link between education, disadvantage and place. Aimed at all those actively seeking to tackle disadvantage, including policymakers, practitioners, academics and students.

Contents:

Accountability arrangementsLeadership and partnership arrangements; 10. Children and places in hard times: some concluding thoughts; Challenges and possibilities in the current context; A strategy for hard times; A promising future?; References; Index.

A new generation of area-based initiatives: area-based initiatives as locally developed ecological interventions7. Developing understandings of place as a basis for intervention; Using disciplinary lenses; Generating an ecological analysis: lessons from practice; 8. Evaluation and monitoring; The challenges of evaluation; Realist evaluation; Theory of change evaluations; Some principles for evaluating new-generation area-based initiatives; Evaluation in action; Principles for monitoring; 9. Governance and accountability; Learning from previous partnership approaches; The current situation.

Why area-based initiatives have not been transformationalLearning from the past; 5. Learning from the present; Weston Academy; Transforming Heybury: a local authority-led area-based initiative; Towards a new style of area-based initiatives?; 6. A rationale for a new generation of area-based initiatives; What can be changed?; Towards a rationale for intervention; The case for an ecological approach to intervention; The importance of place; Responding to the critics: issues of scope, targeting and effectiveness; Intervention, delivery and democracy.

Place-based identities and engagement with schoolingThe school system and place; Education-focused area-based initiatives: possible orientations; 3. Local education systems as products of place: a case study; The town context; Stockborough's local education system; Schools' responses to their pupil populations; Wider efforts to tackle disadvantage in Stockborough; Addressing education inequalities in Stockborough; 4. Learning from the past; The evolution of area-based initiatives in England; Education-focused area-based initiatives; Do area-based initiatives work?

EDUCATION, DISADVANTAGE AND PLACE; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Education-focused area-based initiatives; Thinking about area-based initiatives: some challenges; Thinking about area-based initiatives: some key concepts; Some concluding comments: minimal and maximal models for area-based initiatives; The structure of the book; 2. Why place matters in education; Spatial inequalities in education; The ecology of disadvantaged places, children's identities and schooling.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447311218

1447311213

9781447311201

1447311205

9781447311225

1447311221

OCLC:

919007697