Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: The Remaking of Education for a Cosmopolitan Society [Paperback]

Many educators have been looking for a fundamentally different approach to engage young people and encourage progress in learning. Supported by recent public policy developments, a transformation is beginning to take place in the practice of many schools. The focus of learning is shifting away from the child as an individual in a classroom detached from the surrounding neighbourhood to a learning community that embraces carers and families as well as young people and teachers. This monograph analyses the organising principles of this cultural transformation and considers how it will shape learning in schools and communities throughout the world. The book brings together key thinkers from the fields of new learning, new communities of educational practice and new forms of educational governance. Arguing for the necessary interconnectedness of pedagogy, institutions and governance, this ground-breaking book will undoubtedly shape the policy agenda in this area for years to come.A new monograph that focuses upon how learning communities are transforming schools and communities throughout the world.Jon Nixonis Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.Introduction: Education for a Globalized World: Policy and Pedagogic PossibilitiesJon Nixon, Stewart Ranson and Bob Lingard\Part I: Place and Space\ 1.Deparochializing Education: Re-envisioning Education in ASEANAaron Koh\ 2. Deferring Dystopia: The Sustainable City, Urban Policy and Education MarketsKalervo Gulson\ 3. Place, Space and KnowledgePia Christensen\ 4. Public Space, Participation and Expressive ArtsMorwenna Griffiths and Hamish Ross\Part II: Possible Futures\ 5. Education and its Cosmopolitan PossibilitiesFazal Rizvi\ 6. Relationships of Virtue: Justice as PracticeJon Nixon\ 7. Capability Formation and EducationMelanie Walker\ 8. Remaking Civic Forl³5