Learning the City Cultural Approaches to Civic Learning in Urban Spaces /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sacré, Hari (Editor), De Visscher, Sven (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Learning & Instruction.

This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective. This book approaches the city as a cultural fabric that consists of social, material and symbolic dimensions, and describes how civic le...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Hari Sacré & Sven De Visscher
• Chapter 2: Geographies of Hanging out: Playing, dwelling and thinking with the city. Noora Pyyry
• Chapter 3: Storytelling in Urban spaces: Exploring storytelling as a social work intervention in processes of urbanization. Hari Sacré et al
• Chapter 4: The inner city skater facility – playground or control mechanism? On urban youth, civic learning and pedagogical dilemmas. Peter Hornboek and David Thore Gravesen
• Chapter 5: Space is more than place: The urban context as contested terrain of inclusive learning settings for adults and arena of political subjectivation. Silke Schreiber-Barsch
• Chapter 6: (Re)-Learning the city for intergenerational exchange. Helen Manchester and Keri Fraser.