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Schooling the Rustbelt Kids - Making the difference in changing times (Hardcover)
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Schooling the Rustbelt Kids - Making the difference in changing times (Hardcover)
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'A truly exceptional book.' - Michael W. Apple, University of
Wisconsin, Madison 'A gripping insight into the local struggles
facing disadvantaged schools and a compelling account of the
injustice of their place in the bigger picture.' - Professor Geoff
Whitty, Director, Institute of Education, University of London
Schools in disadvantaged areas are struggling in the current
economic and political environment. Like schools everywhere they
are being asked to do more with less, but they face more obstacles.
In recent years education policy has shifted from a holistic
approach to learning to a focus on narrow educational outcomes:
spelling, reading and writing. Thomson shows that this approach
penalises disadvantaged schools and argues that educational and
social disadvantage are inextricably linked in children's everyday
lives. Examining primary and secondary schools in disadvantaged
areas in a post-industrial ('rustbelt') city, Schooling the
Rustbelt Kids reopens the debate about inequality in schooling. It
provides concrete evidence that typical government policies in the
Western world are not working, and that they are helping to create
a permanent underclass. Thomson outlines an alternative whole of
government approach to policy, which builds on those school
programs that do make a real difference to educational outcomes.
Thomson also emphasises the influence of local geography. Schools
are coloured by particular neighbourhoods, permeated by national
and global events, and tangled in complex networks of social
relations. Interventions which work in one school may not work in
others.
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