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

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...

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Other Authors: Sacré, Hari. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), De Visscher, Sven. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Education,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46230-1
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.