Education policy, space, and the city : markets and the (in)visibility of race / / Kalervo N. Gulson

• Autore: Gulson Kalervo N.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.9173/2
• Soggetto topico: Education, Urban - Government policy; Race discrimination; City children - Education - Government policy; Urban geology - Government policy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Policy, space and theorising the city -- Critical policy analysis : governmentality, rationalities and technologies -- Notes on a spatial policy analytic: relational notions of subjectivity, space and place -- Aboriginality, racialised places and the education market in inner Sydney -- Policy, aspirations and urban imaginaries in east London -- Parental choice, the multicultural city and whiteness in east Vancouver -- Racial neoliberalism, education policy and the city.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education policy, specifically those relating to education markets and school choice, enable the pervasiveness of a white, middle-class, re-imagining of inner-city areas, and render race ""(in)visible."" With urbanization posited as one of the central concerns for the future of the planet, relationships betwee
• Titolo autorizzato: Education policy, space, and the city
• ISBN: 1-136-88627-3; 1-136-88628-1; 1-283-04358-0; 9786613043580; 0-203-83967-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807847403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in education ; ; 47.