Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815380887 ISBN 13: 9780815380887

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

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Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them. This collection addresses the important question - what might regular schools and teachers learn about socially just pedagogies from alternative education practices? First published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

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Glenda McGregor is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School (Academic) in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia. She teaches in the areas of globalisation and education, youth studies and history curriculum. Her research interests include sociology of youth, democratic and alternative forms of education, curriculum, and social justice and education.

Martin Mills is Professor and Director of the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, Institute of Education, University College London, UK. His research interests include alternative education, new pedagogies, social justice issues in education and teachers' work. His most recent (co-authored) books are The Politics of Differentiation in Schools (2017, Routledge) and Re-imagining Schooling for Education (2017, Palgrave Macmillan).

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her work centres on the ways in which educational practices can be made more equitable; her research currently focuses on arts and cultural education in schools, communities, galleries and museums. She is a former school leader of alternative and disadvantaged schools.

Jodie Pennacchia began her career working in learner support roles in mainstream and alternative schools. She has published work in the field of alternative education and is currently writing papers from her doctoral thesis, which explores the production of academy status in the context of an 'underperforming' school. She is a Researcher at the Learning and Work Institute, where her work evaluates the inclusivity of a range of education and training programmes.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0815380887
• ISBN 13: 9780815380887
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
• Herausgeber: McGregor Glenda, Mills Martin, Thomson Pat
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