Living on the boundaries urban marginality in national and international contexts /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Yeakey, Carol Camp
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
• Σειρά: Advances in education in diverse communities ; v. 8.
• Θέματα: Education > Multicultural Education.; Education > Inclusive Education.; Education > Comparative.; Inclusive education > mainstreaming.; Multicultural education.; Education, Urban.; Inclusive education.

Given the increasing urbanization of the world's population, how people thrive and survive in high density urban environments is a topic of profound interest to nation states and governments. Books have focused on 'poverty and place' and 'geography of opportunity,' questioni...

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• The downward slope of upward mobility in a global economy / Carol Camp Yeakey, David L. Shepard
• Dare to be sick : poverty and health among vulnerable populations / Vetta Sanders Thompson, Anjanette Wells, Jacquelyn Coats
• Homeless youth and educational policy : a case study of urban youth in a metropolitan area / William G. Tierney, Ronald E. Hallett
• Light and shadow of public education for migrant children in urban China / Jing Liu
• Struggling towards equity and safe schools in Toronto, Canada / Sue Winton
• Education in a multicultural environment : equity issues in teaching and learning in England / William F. Boyle, Marie Charles
• Freedom schools and mastery learning : providing alternatives to failure in urban public education in the United States / V.P. Franklin
• Creating college-going cultures for students of color in the US : finding a balance between targeted and normative models of intervention / Rican Vue, Siduri Haslerig, Uma M. Jayakumar, Walter R. Allen
• Where the streets have no neighborhoods : marginality and decline in St. Louis, Missouri (USA) / Davis Royal Judson
• A city that works : an urban analysis of the city of Toronto / Amy Cole, Eboney J. Hutt, Elaine T. Stokes
• Confronting stereotypes : children and families in public housing / JoDee Keller
• Turning around the poorest neighbourhoods : learning the lessons from 20 years of neighbourhood-based regeneration strategies in England / Nick Bailey
• Policy decisions and environmental justice for casinos in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) / Moira Conway
• The neighborhood divide : poverty, place, and low-income housing in Metropolitan Richmond, Virginia (USA) / Monique S. Johnson
• Urban operations : public-private partnerships globalizing São Paulo / Marina Toneli Siqueira
• Emergent spaces, contemporary urban conflicts : experiences of social mix in changing neighborhoods : the case study of Milan's Chinatown / Lidia K.C. Manzo
• Effects of social identity and poverty on orientation towards mass incidents in mainland China / Jing Sun, Nicholas Buys, Xinchao Wang
• The hidden unwanted : patterns of immigrants' marginality in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Milan (Italy) / Roberta Cucca
• The decline of social capital in urban China / Weijie Wang
• The redress of urban governance and marginality in Dhaka, Bangladesh / Saleh Ahmed
• 'Voting with their feet?' : satisfaction and preferences of quality of life in forty districts in Tokyo, Japan / Kayo Tajima
• 'The poor ye have with you always' : poverty and marginality in sub-Saharan Africa / Kingsley Banya
• Conclusion : 'living on the boundaries' / Carol Camp Yeakey.