Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities

Jon Nixon has held chairs at four universities across the UK. He currently holds an honorary chair at the University of Sheffield, UK. Stewart Ranson is Professor of Education and Deputy Director of Research at the University of Warwick, UK. Bob Lingard is Professor of Education in the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has held chairs at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the University of Sheffield, UK.

Introduction: Education for a Globalized World: Policy and Pedagogic Possibilities Jon Nixon, Stewart Ranson and Bob Lingard; Part I: Place and Space; 1: Deparochializing Education: Re-envisioning Education in ASEAN Aaron Koh; 2: Deferring Dystopia: The Sustainable City, Urban Policy and Education Markets Kalervo Gulson; 3: Place, Space and Knowledge Pia Christensen; 4: Public Space, Participation and Expressive Arts Morwenna Griffiths and Ha.mish Ross; Part Possible Futures; 5: Education and its Cosmopolitan Possibilities Fazal Rizvi; 6: Relationships of Virtue: Justice as Practice Jon Nixon; 7: Capability Formation and Education Melanie Walker; 8: Remaking Civic Formation: Transforming Politics and the Cosmopolitan School Terri Seddon; 9: A School for Citizens: Civic Learning and Democratic Action in the Learning Democracy Gert Biesta; 10: Re-constituting Education Governance for Cosmopolitan Society Stewart Ranson; Part M: Pedagogic Mediations; 11: Pedagogies of Indifference: Research, Policy and Practice Bob Lingard; 12: Dialogue, Inquiry and the Construction of Learning Communities Gordon Wells; 13: The Production of Space for Learning Nick Boreham; 14: The Social, Cultural and Linguistic Significance of Complementary Schools Angela Creese and Adnan Black/edge; 15: Participation, Policy and the Changing Conditions of Childhood Alan Prout; 16: Schools and Urban Regeneration: Challenges and Possibilities Pat Thomson; Index.