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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 learning spaces outside mainstream education.

Contents:

Geographies of Alternative Education; Contents; List of figures; Notes on author; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Introducing alternative education in the UK; Researching alternative education in the UK: a note on methodology and terminology; Structure of the book; 2. Conceptual frameworks: towards geographies of alternative education; Geographies of education and childhood; 'Radical' theories of education, informal education, and alternative education; Theorising alternatives: diverse economic and autonomous practices; Non-representational geographies and the politics of life-itself

Conclusion3. Alternative learning spaces in the UK: background to the case studies used in this book; Care farms; Forest schools; Homeschooling; Democratic and human scale schooling; Steiner schooling; Montessori schooling; Conclusion; 4. Connection/disconnection: positioning alternative learning spaces; Conceptual dis/connections: critiquing and empathising with mainstream education; Pragmatic dis/connections; Community dis/connections; Alternative dis/connections: "little people can do big things"; Conclusion: dis/connection and autonomy; 5. Mess/order: materials, timings, feelings

Emotion, affect and education studiesTaking time, creating order, fostering affects; Taking time and making space: the absence of 'uniform' materialities/temporalities; Dis/orderly materialities: "it's making messmanageable"; Bringing it together: a case study of a human scale school; Conclusions; 6. Movement/embodiment: learning habits (I); Of habit; Mechanised movement between places: the experience of homeschoolers; Bodily movements: distraction, implication, repetition; Channelling bodily movements: articulating habit; Conclusion: learning habits (I)

7. Inter/personal relations: scale, love and learning habits (II)Interpersonal relations, interpersonal scales; Friendship: intragenerational and intergenerational support; Family(-like) relations: on intimacy, love, but "not being too involved"; Habit (II): love scaled, love spatialised; Conclusion: from mindfulness, to consciousness, to the good life; 8. Towards the 'good life': alternative visions of learning, love and life-itself; Love; Nature; Food; Utopia and endurance: towards a theorisation of collaborative autonomy in alternative learning spaces; Conclusions

9. Conclusion: geographies of alternative education and the value of autonomous learning spacesAutonomous learning spaces and 'the mainstream'; What's different about autonomous learning spaces themselves?; (Collaboratively) autonomous learning spaces: habit and life-itself; Ramifications, practical and political; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-1091-8

1-4473-0051-3

OCLC:

852831569