International Handbook of Urban Education

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXVI
Urban Education in Africa: Section Editors\' Introduction....Pages 3-22
Urbanization and Schooling in Africa: Trends, Issues, and Challenges from Ghana during the Colonial Era....Pages 23-48
Language Education in Cameroon: From the Colonial Era to the 21st Century....Pages 49-74
The Politics of National Culture and Urban Education Reforms in Post-Independent Zimbabwe....Pages 75-90
Reforming the City School in South Africa: Mapping the History from Apartheid Durban to Post-Apartheid eThekwini....Pages 91-114
Urban Primary Schooling in Malawi: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 115-128
Ethnicity, Politics, and State Resource Allocation: Explaining Educational Inequalities in Kenya....Pages 129-144
Dimensions of Diversity: Educating Urban Township Learners, a Case of Umlazi Township School in Durban, South Africa....Pages 145-181
The Middle School Climate in Senegal: The Case of the Diourbel Middle School1....Pages 183-204
Urban Education Differentials and Marginalization: The Case of Educating the Youth in Nairobi\'s Informal Settlements....Pages 205-217
Urban Education in Asia Pacific: Section Editors\'Introduction....Pages 221-230
Urban-Rural Disparities in Educational Equality: China\'s Pressing Challenge in a Context of Economic Growth and Political Change....Pages 231-247
Equity and Social Justice in Australian Education Systems: Retrospect and Prospect....Pages 249-264
The Urban and the Peripheral: New Challenges for Education in the Pacific....Pages 265-284
Ducked or Bulldozed? Education of Deprived Urban Children in India....Pages 285-304
Withering the State? Globalization Challenges and Changing Higher Education Governance in East Asia....Pages 305-320
Madrasah and Muslim Education: Its Interface with Urbanization....Pages 321-341
Women in East Asian Education and Society: Whose Gains in Whose Perspectives?....Pages 343-358
Framing Lives: Longitudinal Research on Life Planning and Pathways in Singapore....Pages 359-379
New Urban Terrains: Literacies, World Kids, and Teachers....Pages 381-394
Urban Education in Europe: Section Editors\'Introduction....Pages 397-411
Globalisation and Glocalisation in Northern Spain: Urban Education, Ethnicity and Multicultural Issues....Pages 413-430
School Differentiation and Segregation in the Parisian Periphery: An Analysis of Urban Schools\' Logics of Action and their Effects....Pages 431-445
Urban Citizenship....Pages 447-462
Territorial Stigmatisation, Hip Hop and Informal Schooling....Pages 463-479
Between the Road and the Town: An Ethnographic Study of the Education of Traveling Attractionists....Pages 481-503
The Limits of Compensatory Education in Spain: A Comparative Analysis of Some Autonomous Governments....Pages 505-521
Dutch Urban Schools and Teachers\' Professionalism....Pages 523-537
Urban Regions and their Potential for Teacher Education: The Hamburg Example....Pages 539-558
Urban Education in Latin America: Section Editor\'s Introduction....Pages 561-580
History of Brazilian Urban Education: Space and Time in Primary Schools....Pages 581-600
Learning Cycles: Transition Policies for a New Logic of Compulsory Schooling in Brazil....Pages 601-618
School Failure and Public Schools: Theoretical and Pedagogical Challenges in Brazil....Pages 619-640
Chilean Educational Reform: The Intricate Balance Between a Macro and Micro Policy....Pages 641-663
Public Policies and Educational Equity in the City of Bogota....Pages 665-683
Primary Education: Changing Mainstay of Uruguay....Pages 685-703
Educational Policies and Realities: Teachers\' Initial Education in Mexico....Pages 705-726
Learning to Work in an Industrial Mexican City in Transition (1990–2000)....Pages 727-745
The Fragmented Composition of the Argentinean Educational System....Pages 747-761
Urban Education in North America: Section Editor\'s Introduction....Pages 765-778
Imagining the Urban: The Politics of Race, Class, and Schooling....Pages 779-801
Persuasive, Pervasive, and Limiting: How Causal Explanations Shape Urban Educational Research and Practice....Pages 803-823
The New Immigrants: Shaping the Urban Educational Landscape....Pages 825-840
Urban Schooling in Suburban Contexts: Exploring the Immigrant Factor in Urban Education....Pages 841-858
Urban School Reform: To What End?....Pages 859-882
Success Stories in Urban Education: A Critical Look at the Ethic of Care in Programs, Projects, and Strategies that Work from the Classroom to Community....Pages 883-903
Rebuilding Schools, Restoring Communities: A Vision of Urban Educational Evaluation....Pages 905-926
Urban Education in the United Kingdom: Section Editors\' Introduction....Pages 929-941
History of Urban Education in the United Kingdom....Pages 943-957
Urban Education Theory Revisited: From the Urban Question to End of Millennium....Pages 959-978
Combating Racism in Schooling: A Critical Perspective on Contemporary Policy and Practice....Pages 979-1005
Reforming Urban Education Systems....Pages 1007-1025
Urban Learning and the Need for Varied Urban Curricula and Pedagogies....Pages 1027-1048
Leading Schools in High Poverty Neighborhoods: The National College for School Leadership and Beyond....Pages 1049-1077
Urban School Improvement....Pages 1079-1103
Urban Schools: Performance, Competition and Collaboration....Pages 1105-1121
The Governance of Urban Education in the UK: A Public, Private or Partnership Future?....Pages 1123-1137
Multi-Agency Working in Urban Education and Social Justice....Pages 1139-1156
Future Directions for Urban Education in the UK....Pages 1157-1172
Coda: An Urban Education Dystopia....Pages 1175-1176
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050....Pages 1177-1181
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050: A Response from Africa....Pages 1183-1186
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050: A Response from the Asia Pacific....Pages 1187-1190
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050: A Response from Europe....Pages 1191-1193
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050: A Response from Latin America....Pages 1195-1198
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050: A Response from North America....Pages 1199-1201
Urban Education Dystopia, 2050: A Response from the United Kingdom....Pages 1203-1206
Back Matter....Pages 1207-1265