Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice
Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them. Fifty years of international research reports that alternative settings are characterised by close and powerful staff-student relationships, a curriculum which is relevant, engaging and meaningful, and the strong sense of agency afforded young people by the opportunity to make decisions. Together, these three practices produce increased life chances for alternative education participants.However, despite these apparent successes, alternative education seems to have had little impact on mainstream schools. This collection of papers addresse…
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Weitere Autoren: Mills, Martin (Hrsg.) / Thomson, Pat (Hrsg.) / Pennacchia, Jodie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-21186-4
- EAN: 9781351211864
- Produktnummer: 32822672
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 156 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 554 KB
Über den Autor
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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