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  title info:
    title: International Handbook of Urban Education
  name:
    name part: Pink, William T.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Noblit, George W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLVI, 1267 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Africa -- Urban Education in Africa: Section Editors' Introduction -- Urbanization and Schooling in Africa: Trends, Issues, and Challenges from Ghana during the Colonial Era -- Language Education in Cameroon: From the Colonial Era to the 21st Century -- The Politics of National Culture and Urban Education Reforms in Post-Independent Zimbabwe -- Reforming the City School in South Africa: Mapping the History from Apartheid Durban to Post-Apartheid eThekwini -- Urban Primary Schooling in Malawi: Opportunities and Challenges -- Ethnicity, Politics, and State Resource Allocation: Explaining Educational Inequalities in Kenya -- Dimensions of Diversity: Educating Urban Township Learners, a Case of Umlazi Township School in Durban, South Africa -- The Middle School Climate in Senegal: The Case of the Diourbel Middle School1 -- Urban Education Differentials and Marginalization: The Case of Educating the Youth in Nairobi's Informal Settlements -- Asia Pacific -- Urban Education in Asia Pacific: Section Editors'Introduction -- Urban-Rural Disparities in Educational Equality: China's Pressing Challenge in a Context of Economic Growth and Political Change -- Equity and Social Justice in Australian Education Systems: Retrospect and Prospect -- The Urban and the Peripheral: New Challenges for Education in the Pacific -- Ducked or Bulldozed? Education of Deprived Urban Children in India -- Withering the State? Globalization Challenges and Changing Higher Education Governance in East Asia -- Madrasah and Muslim Education: Its Interface with Urbanization -- Women in East Asian Education and Society: Whose Gains in Whose Perspectives? -- Framing Lives: Longitudinal Research on Life Planning and Pathways in Singapore -- New Urban Terrains: Literacies, World Kids, and Teachers -- Western Europe -- Urban Education in Europe: Section Editors'Introduction -- Globalisation and Glocalisation in Northern Spain: Urban Education, Ethnicity and Multicultural Issues -- School Differentiation and …
  note: edited by William T. Pink, George W. Noblit.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  classification: L1-991
  classification: 370
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer International Handbooks of Education ; 19
  identifier: 9781402051999
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5199-9
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204190451.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-5199-9