This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales. It contains insights that draw upon the fields of urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It brings together current thinking and practical experience from German and international perspectives. This discussion is organised in four segments: schools and the neighbourhood; education and the neighbourhood; education and the city and finally, education and the region. Contributors cover a wide range of contemporary and significant socio-political aspects of education over the last decade. They reinforce emergent thinking that space and its urban context are important dimensions of education. This book also underscores the need for more research in the relationships between education and urban development itself. Current urban planning does not fully connect our understanding in education with what we know in the spatial and planning sciences. Accordingly, this release is an early attempt to bring together a growing body of integrated and interdisciplinary reflection on education theory and practice.

This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales. It contains insights that draw upon the fields of urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It brings together current thinking and practical experience from German and international perspectives. This discussion is organised in four segments: schools and the neighbourhood; education and the neighbourhood; education and the city and finally, education and the region. Contributors cover a wide range of contemporary and significant socio-political aspects of education over the last decade. They reinforce emergent thinking that space and its urban context are important dimensions of education. This book also underscores the need for more research in the relationships between education and urban development itself. Current urban planning does not fully connect our understanding in education with what we know in the spatial and planning sciences. Accordingly, this release is an early attempt to bring together a growing body of integrated and interdisciplinary reflection on education theory and practice.

Welche Bedeutung und Perspektive hat die Kommune heute aus philosophischer, soziologischer, politologischer und padagogischer Sicht? Zu den Grundlegungen gehoeren Fragen nach individuellen Tugenden und kollektiven Bereitschaften zum Engagement, nach einer Sozialintegration jenseits von Erwerbsarbeit und nach der Rolle des Raumes fur Identitatsbildung. In Bezug auf Institutionen werden die Potenziale von Genossenschaften und Jugendhilfeausschussen ausgelotet, die Auswirkungen der OEkonomisierung auf erzieherische Einzelfallhilfen und die Paradoxien der Zusammenlegung von Arbeitsfoerderung und Sozialhilfe aufgezeigt sowie die Schule im Spannungsfeld zwischen Staat und Kommune verortet. Die Perspektiven schliesslich betreffen die lokale Durchsetzbarkeit von Kinderrechten, das demokratische Ehrenamt, metaphysische Weiterungen und eine Neuformulierung der Gemeinwesenoekonomie.