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Author Dixon-Román, Ezekiel

Title Thinking Comprehensively About Education : Spaces of Educative Possibility and their Implications for Public Policy
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; 1 INTRODUCTION: Social Space and the Political Economy of Comprehensively Conceived Education; 2 TOWARD A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF EDUCATION; Social Systems and the Produced Spaces of Comprehensively Conceived Education; 3 PRODUCTS OF THE REVOLUTION: The Social System of Comprehensively Conceived Education in Cuba; 4 THE ETHNIC SYSTEM OF SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION: Lessons From Chinatown and Koreatown, Los Angeles; 5 SAN DIEGO'S DIAMOND NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION
Programmatic and Institutional Production of Spaces of Comprehensively Conceived Education6 RE-STORYING THE SPACES OF EDUCATION THROUGH NARRATIVE; 7 THE DRUM IN THE DOJO: Re-Sounding Embodied Experience in Taiko Drumming; Nondominant Everyday-Spatial Practices of Comprehensively Conceived Education; 8 THE CULTURAL MODELING OF COMPREHENSIVELY CONCEIVED EDUCATION; 9 THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF RESILIENCE AND IDENTITY: An African American Engineer's Life Story; 10 EXPLORING EDUCATIVE POSSIBILITY THROUGH THE PROCESS OF LEARNING IN YOUTH SPORTS
11 WE ARE THE ONES: Educative Possibilities in Youth PoetryToward a Public Policy Agenda on Comprehensively Conceived Education; 12 THE CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPING A ROBUST KNOWLEDGE BASE ON COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION: Toward a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda; 13 A BROADER AND BOLDER APPROACH FOR NEWARK; 14 SCHOOL REFORM: A Limited Strategy in National Education Policy; ABOUT THE EDITORS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and practices; conceptualizing education more broadly through a nuanced exploration of:the various spaces where education occurs; the non-dominant practices and possibilities of those spaces; the possi
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Subject Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States
Community and school -- United States.
Experiential learning -- United States
Non-formal education -- United States
Children with social disabilities -- Education.
Community and school.
Experiential learning.
Non-formal education.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Gordon, Edmund W. W
ISBN 9780203120019
0203120019