Improving Educational Equity in Urban Contexts
eBook - ePub

Improving Educational Equity in Urban Contexts

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Improving Educational Equity in Urban Contexts

About this book

An enduring educational concern that has plagued researchers and policy makers in a number of affluent countries is the endemic nature of educational inequalities. These inequalities highlight distinct differences in the educational skills, knowledge, capabilities and credentials between learners' demographic characteristics. They also point to issues of educational disadvantage that emanate from a combination of factors including family life, communities, the geographies of space and place, gender and ethnicity.

This book examines some of the causes and responses to educational inequalities, and focuses upon poor urban contexts where educational disadvantage is at its most concentrated, and where educational policy and practice has, over time, proliferated. It questions how wider inequities experienced by young people in urban contexts generate educational inequalities and disadvantage, detailing explicitly what an equitable approach to education might look like.

Included in the book is an innovative educational equity framework and toolkit with illustrative policy and practice case studies, bringing together unique scholarship and analysis to examine future educational policy in a holistic, comprehensive and equitable way. It will be valuable reading for postgraduate students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in education and educational equity.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415817479
eBook ISBN
9781136659010
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Permissions
  9. 1 Introduction – improving educational equity in urban contexts
  10. 2 What is educational equity?
  11. 3 Disadvantaged urban contexts and educational equity
  12. 4 Educational policy for educational equity
  13. 5 Leading schools to promote educational equity
  14. 6 Educational equity and the work-related curriculum
  15. 7 A vocational education programme based on notions of equity
  16. 8 An educational equity toolkit
  17. Appendix: MCA toolkit – schools speaking for themselves
  18. References
  19. Index