Changing Urban Education

Simon Pratt-Adams is Head of the Department of Education in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Elizabeth Burn is a retired academic with substantial experience of teaching in urban schools and higher education. She has researched extensively in the field of social justice and is now involved in setting up a community theatre for disadvantaged teenagers. Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London, UK. Simon Pratt-Adams is Head of the Department of Education in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in Education and MA Education Programme Convener in the School of Education at Roehampton University, UK. He is co-author of Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education (2014) with Vini Lander and is co-series editor of Policy and Practice in the Classroom with Alaster Scott Douglas and Barbara Read.

'Changing Urban Education provides a stimulating and critical compendium for urban teachers, including those who are experienced, new and still in teacher education, and who are committed to more socially just pedagogies and curriculum for working class students. Here are both the intellectual and practical resources for teachers to reclaim and justify pedagogies, policies and curricula of hope to change urban schools in changing contexts against failed and reductive neo-liberal agendas.' Bob Lingard, Professorial Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia

• Introduction \ Part I: Theorizing the Urban \ 1. Urban Myths and Urban Lives \ 2. Peopling the City \ 3. The Virtual Urban \ Part II: Urban Education in Changing Times \ 4. Culture, Faith and Community \ 5. Urban Education in a Global Context \ 6. Policies in Urban Settings \ Part III: Urban Education Policy into Practice \ 7. Critical Urban Pedagogy \ 8. Early Years Education in the Urban Context \ 9. Urban Education and Emerging Learning Technologies \ Part IV: Changing Urban Education \ 10. Justice, Hope and Vision \ References \ Index