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Author Dyson, Alan.

Title Education : making the local matter / Alan Dyson.

Publication Info. Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
Contents EDUCATION, DISADVANTAGE AND PLACE; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Education-focused area-based initiatives; Thinking about area-based initiatives: some challenges; Thinking about area-based initiatives: some key concepts; Some concluding comments: minimal and maximal models for area-based initiatives; The structure of the book; 2. Why place matters in education; Spatial inequalities in education; The ecology of disadvantaged places, children's identities and schooling.
Place-based identities and engagement with schoolingThe school system and place; Education-focused area-based initiatives: possible orientations; 3. Local education systems as products of place: a case study; The town context; Stockborough's local education system; Schools' responses to their pupil populations; Wider efforts to tackle disadvantage in Stockborough; Addressing education inequalities in Stockborough; 4. Learning from the past; The evolution of area-based initiatives in England; Education-focused area-based initiatives; Do area-based initiatives work?
Why area-based initiatives have not been transformationalLearning from the past; 5. Learning from the present; Weston Academy; Transforming Heybury: a local authority-led area-based initiative; Towards a new style of area-based initiatives?; 6. A rationale for a new generation of area-based initiatives; What can be changed?; Towards a rationale for intervention; The case for an ecological approach to intervention; The importance of place; Responding to the critics: issues of scope, targeting and effectiveness; Intervention, delivery and democracy.
A new generation of area-based initiatives: area-based initiatives as locally developed ecological interventions7. Developing understandings of place as a basis for intervention; Using disciplinary lenses; Generating an ecological analysis: lessons from practice; 8. Evaluation and monitoring; The challenges of evaluation; Realist evaluation; Theory of change evaluations; Some principles for evaluating new-generation area-based initiatives; Evaluation in action; Principles for monitoring; 9. Governance and accountability; Learning from previous partnership approaches; The current situation.
Accountability arrangementsLeadership and partnership arrangements; 10. Children and places in hard times: some concluding thoughts; Challenges and possibilities in the current context; A strategy for hard times; A promising future?; References; Index.
Summary Challenging current thinking, this important book is the first to focus on the role of area-based initiatives to tackle the link between education, disadvantage and place. Aimed at all those actively seeking to tackle disadvantage, including policymakers, practitioners, academics and students.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Education -- Administration.
Education -- Administration.
Education.
Education and state -- Reform.
Education and state.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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