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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalisation, race, markets and school choice, suburbanisation, regional and rural settings, and youth and student culture.

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Routledge

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1134139624

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9781134139620

Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,P. Taylor Webb

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Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,P. Taylor Webb

For decades now, school choice has been growing in urban areas around the world, but we've not yet deeply analyzed the ways that such programs interact with the complicated politics of race and ethnicity in contemporary multicultural cities. This book offers a close look at such questions through the case of the twenty-year struggle within Toronto's black community to introduce black-focused curricula and schools, which culminated in the opening of the publicly funded Africentric Alternative School in Toronto in 2009. The authors offer a detailed analysis of the policy process and practices involved in the battle for and creation of the school, and they draw lessons from it for the politics of education in other cities.

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160

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Policy Press

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1447320077

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9781447320074

Algorithms of Education

How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Sam Sellar,P. Taylor Webb

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Algorithms of Education

How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Sam Sellar,P. Taylor Webb

A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy While the science fiction tales of artificial intelligence eclipsing humanity are still very much fantasies, in Algorithms of Education the authors tell real stories of how algorithms and machines are transforming education governance, providing a fascinating discussion and critique of data and its role in education policy. Algorithms of Education explores how, for policy makers, today’s ever-growing amount of data creates the illusion of greater control over the educational futures of students and the work of school leaders and teachers. In fact, the increased datafication of education, the authors argue, offers less and less control, as algorithms and artificial intelligence further abstract the educational experience and distance policy makers from teaching and learning. Focusing on the changing conditions for education policy and governance, Algorithms of Education proposes that schools and governments are increasingly turning to “synthetic governance”—a governance where what is human and machine becomes less clear—as a strategy for optimizing education. Exploring case studies of data infrastructures, facial recognition, and the growing use of data science in education, Algorithms of Education draws on a wide variety of fields—from critical theory and media studies to science and technology studies and education policy studies—mapping the political and methodological directions for engaging with datafication and artificial intelligence in education governance. According to the authors, we must go beyond the debates that separate humans and machines in order to develop new strategies for, and a new politics of, education.

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196

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452964726

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9781452964720

Education Policy, Space and the City

Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

By: Kalervo N. Gulson

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Education Policy, Space and the City

Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

By: Kalervo N. Gulson

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 between the city, educational policy, and social and educational inequality deserve sustained examination. Gulson’s book is a rich and needed contribution to these areas of study.

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240

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Routledge

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1136886273

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9781136886270

Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

By: P. Taylor Webb,Kalervo N. Gulson

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Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

By: P. Taylor Webb,Kalervo N. Gulson

Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), decision-making (power), problem-solving (science and methodology), and knowledge (epistemology). Policy, Geophilosophy, and Education reconceptualises the object, and hence, the objectives, of education policy. Specifically, the book illustrates how education policy positions and constitutes objects and subjects through emergent policy arrangements that simultaneously influence how policy is sensed, embodied, and enacted. The book examines the disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to education policy analysis over the last sixty years, and reveals how policy analysis constitutes the ontologies and epistemologies of policy. In order to reconceptualise policy, Policy, Geophilosophy, and Education uses ideas of spatiality, affect and problematization from the disciplines of geography and philosophy. The book problematizes case-vignettes to illustrate the complex and often paradoxical relations between neo-liberal education policy equity, and educational inequalities produced in the representational registers of race and ethnicity.

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164

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Springer

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9463001425

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9789463001427

Book's by Kalervo N. Gulson

Spatial Theories of Education

Spatial Theories of Education

Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities

Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities

Algorithms of Education

Algorithms of Education

Education Policy, Space and the City

Education Policy, Space and the City

Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

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