Spatial Theories of Education Policy and Geography Matters [Paperback]

This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory.

The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalisation, race, markets and school choice, suburbanisation, regional and rural settings, and youth and student culture.

1. Knowing Ones Place: Educational Theory, Policy, and the Spatial Turn  Kalervo N. Gulson and Colin Symes  2. The Spatial Politics of Educational Privatization: Re-reading the US Homeschooling Movement  Claudia Hanson Thiem  3. Mobilizing Space Discourses: Politics and Educational Policy Change  Kalervo N. Gulson  4. Space, Equity and Rural Education: A Trialectical Account  Bill Green and Will Letts  5. GIS and School Choice: The Use of Spatial Research Tools in Studying Educational Policy  Chris Taylor 6. Disability, Education and Space: Some Critical Reflections  FelicityArmstrong  7. Working the In/visible Geographies of School Exclusion  Pat Thomson  8. Warehousing Young People in Urban Canadian Schools: Gender, Peer Rivalry and Spatial Containment  Jo-Anne Dillabough, Jacqueline Kennelly and Eugenia Wang  9. Education and the Spatialization of Urban Inequality: A Case Study of Chicagos Renaissance 2010  Pauline Lipman  10. On the Right Track: Railways andl“,