Editors:
- Functions as a survey of the definitions, practices, problematics and solutions concerning worldwide urban education
- Includes 8-10 manuscripts from each of eight regions worldwide: Africa, Asia, Austral-Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin/South America, North America, United Kingdom
- Each section comprises cutting-edge work on urban education written by the major scholars working in that region
- The cross-regional, cross-cultural views enable readers to think about pressing urban education issues outside of their own cultural assumptions
- Themes woven throughout all the sections: migration; diaspora; educational policies; policy and economic development; politics and educational goals; definitions of urban and urban education; success stories; strategies for reform; evaluation
Part of the book series: Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE, volume 19)
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Table of contents (67 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Africa
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Asia Pacific
About this book
It is evident that urban education has become the central focus of educators at the present time. In the U.S., for example, almost one third of all school age children attend schools in large urban school districts. It is in these urban schools where the diversity of cultures and languages is highest and where student learning is most problematic.
What has emerged from recent work to improve urban schools is the insight that there is no one-size-fits-all panacea. Rather, we have discovered that the local context shapes, in critically important ways, what will be effective at the school level. The universality of the problematics with urban education, together with the importance of understanding the local, or situated, context of improvement interventions, brings into sharp focus the importance and timeliness of an undertaking like the International Handbook of Urban Education.
An important focus of the International Handbook of Urban Education will be the interrogation of both the social and political factors that lead to different problem posing and subsequent solutions within each region. An important question to be answered, for example, is what it takes in terms of resources, political will and policy actions to improve urban education.
Editors and Affiliations
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Marquette University, U.S.A.
William T. Pink
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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
George W. Noblit
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Urban Education
Editors: William T. Pink, George W. Noblit
Series Title: Springer International Handbooks of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5199-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5198-2Published: 04 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5199-9Published: 03 September 2008
Series ISSN: 2197-1951
Series E-ISSN: 2197-196X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVI, 1267
Topics: Education, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education