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Learning Cities

Multimodal Explorations and Placed Pedagogies

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Editors:
  1. Sue Nichols

    1. School of Education, University of South Australia, Magill, Australia

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  2. Stephen Dobson

    1. School of Education, University of South Australia, Magill, Australia

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  • Presents a compelling argument for seeing city environments as contexts for learning and for research into learning
  • Provides detailed descriptions of innovative methodologies used to research learning in urban and suburban environments
  • Builds bridges between the often-separated educational and social activist perspective

Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE, volume 8)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introducing Learning Cities

    • Sue Nichols
    Pages 1-6

  3. Multimodal Explorations of the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Researching and Photographing Cities: Getting Started

      • Caroline Knowles
      Pages 9-21

    3. Coming to Our Senses: Multiculturalism, Urban Sociology and ‘the Other’ Senses

      • Alex Rhys-Taylor
      Pages 23-36

    4. English Literacies in Medellín: The City as Literacy

      • Raúl Alberto Mora, Carla Pulgarín, Natalia Ramírez, María Camila Mejía-Vélez
      Pages 37-60

    5. Who Is a City for? Reflections on Children’s Narrative- and Design-Led Explorations

      • Angelique Edmonds
      Pages 61-76

    6. Signs of the City: Metropolis Speaking

      • Stefan Horn
      Pages 77-94

    7. Walking Through Spiritual Neighbourhoods: A Photo Essay

      • Terence Heng
      Pages 95-107

  4. Urban Pedagogies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Urban Pedagogy and the Need to Develop City Skills

      • Stephen Dobson
      Pages 111-129

    3. Commercial Ethnography: What Are Education Researchers Doing in the Mall?

      • Sue Nichols
      Pages 131-146

    4. Learning Around Iconic Buildings: Maps of Experience in the Making

      • Gabriele Budach
      Pages 147-168

    5. Spaces of Informal Learning and Cultures of Translation and Marginality in London’s Jewish East End

      • Ben Gidley
      Pages 169-182

    6. Learning the Sexual City

      • Alison Rooke
      Pages 183-201

    7. Learning in/from ‘Disadvantaged’ Communities: Connecting People and Sites of Learning

      • Denise MacGregor
      Pages 203-217

    8. Learning How to Smell a Rat and Identify the Spaces: Community-Based Education and Urban Renewal

      • Marjorie Mayo
      Pages 219-234

    9. Afterword: Reading the Book Through the Lens of ‘Bildung’

      • Stephen Dobson
      Pages 235-239

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 241-246
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About this book

This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied linguistics and sensory studies, this collection of papers develops and demonstrates the connection between experience, in all its dimensions, and informal learning in the city. The chapters discuss various sensory domains of experience, considering visual, embodied, and even sexual dimensions in relation to what and how learning operates, and the contributors reflect on their learning and inquiring experiences in the city, with special reference to topics such as narrativity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, equity, urban literacy, re-generation, participation, representation and oral histories.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, University of South Australia, Magill, Australia

    Sue Nichols, Stephen Dobson

About the editors

Sue Nichols is an educational researcher whose work crosses diverse contexts of formal and informal education. Using ethnographic, ecological and semiotic approaches she is particularly interested in how knowledge and practice is mobilised and circulates between contexts. Sue has edited and authored several books including Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources (Routledge, 2017). She is currently Associate Professor of Education at the University of South Australia. 

Stephen Dobson is Professor and Dean of the School of Education, University of South Australia. Prior to entering higher education, he worked with refugees in community contexts for thirteen years. His interests include assessment, professional development, refugee studies, bildung, inclusion and classroom studies. He has recently published Assessing the Viva in Higher Education. Chasing Moments of Truth (Springer publishers, 2017).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning Cities

  • Book Subtitle: Multimodal Explorations and Placed Pedagogies

  • Editors: Sue Nichols, Stephen Dobson

  • Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8100-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8098-2Published: 16 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4064-2Published: 22 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8100-2Published: 29 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2345-7708

  • Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 246

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Learning & Instruction

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