Spatial Theories of Education

<p>This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. </p><p>The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalisation, race, markets and school choice, suburbanisation, regional and rural settings, and youth and student culture.</p> <p>1. Knowing One’s Place: Educational Theory, Policy, and the Spatial Turn <em>Kalervo N. Gulson and Colin Symes </em> 2. The Spatial Politics of Educational Privatization: Re-reading the US Homeschooling Movement <em>Claudia Hanson Thiem </em> 3. Mobilizing Space Discourses: Politics and Educational Policy Change <em>Kalervo N. Gulson</em> 4. Space, Equity and Rural Education: A ‘Trialectical’ Account <em>Bill Green and Will Letts </em> 5. GIS and School Choice: The Use of Spatial Research Tools in Studying Educational Policy <em>Chris Taylor</em> 6. Disability, Education and Space: Some Critical Reflections <em>Felicity</em> <em>Armstrong </em> 7. Working the In/visible Geographies of School Exclusion <em>Pat Thomson </em> 8. Warehousing Young People in Urban Canadian Schools: Gender, Peer Rivalry and Spatial Containment <em>Jo-Anne Dillabough, Jacqueline Kennelly and Eugenia Wang </em> 9. Education and the Spatialization of Urban Inequality: A Case Study of Chicago’s Renaissance 2010 <em>Pauline Lipman </em> 10. On the Right Track: Railways and Schools in Late Nineteenth Century of Sydney<em> </em> <em>Colin Symes</em> 11. Student Mobility and the Spatial Production of Cosmopolitan Identities <em>Michael Singh, Fazal Rizvi and Mona Shrestha </em> 12. Public-Private Partnerships, Digital Firms and the Production of a Neoliberal Education Space at the European Scale <em> Susan Robertson </em> 13. Deparochializing the Study of Education: Globalization and the Research Imagination <em>Bob Lingard </em> 14. Trade Unions, Strategic Pedagogy and New Spaces of Engagement: Counterknowledge Economy Insights from Columbia <em> Mario Novelli</em></p>