Thinking comprehensively about education Spaces of Educative Possibility and Their Implications for Public Policy

• Main Authors: Edmund W. Gordon, Ezekiel Dixon-Román
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: African Americans; Athletics; Biographies; California; Children with social disabilities; Community and school; Community Change; Cuba; Culture; Economics; Education; EDUCATION / General; Education Policy & Politics; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Educational Research; Engineering; Ethnicity; Experiential learning; Foreign Countries; Identification; Innovation; Music Activities; Neighborhoods; New Jersey; Non-formal education; Poetry; Public Policy; Resilience (Psychology); Social Systems; Sociology of Education; Story Telling; Supplementary Education; Technical Occupations; Urban Areas; Urban Education; Youth; Youth Work; Cuba; New Jersey; California; possibilities; Policy Relevant Research Agenda; Personal Development; Data Sets; Youth Sports Settings; Cuban Social System; Complementary Education Programs; learning; Diamond Neighborhoods; NPS; San Diego; educative; school; Random Assignment; Casas De Cultura; Young Men; supplementary; Chinese Ethnoburbs; Promise Neighborhood Initiative; Robust Learning Environments; neighborhoods; out-of; Complementary Education; Comprehensive Community Initiatives; Minimum GPA; High Performance Learning Communities; St Century Community Learning Centers; Supplementary Education; diamond; Informal Learning Spaces; Youth Poetry; Robust Knowledge Base; Segmented Assimilation Framework; programs; afterschool
• ISBN: 9780415894913; 0415894913; 9780415894920; 0415894921
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203120019

While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and practices; conceptualizing education more broadly through a nuanced exploration of: the various spaces where education occurs; the non-dominant practices and possibilities of those spaces; the possibilities of enabling social systems, institutions, and programs of comprehensive education. This original edited collection identifies and describes the resources that enable optimal human learning and development, and offers a public policy framework that can enable a truly comprehensive educational system. Thinking Comprehensively About Education is a must-read for faculty, students, policy analysts, and policymakers.