Changing Urban Education

Elizabeth Burn is Senior Primary and Early Years Manager, The Learning Trust, Hackney, London, UK. Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education, King's College London, UK. Simon Pratt-Adams is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, London Metropolitan University, UK.

• Introduction; Part I: Theorizing the Urban; 1. Urban Myths and Urban Lives; 2. Peopling the City Chapter; 3. The Virtual Urban; Part II: Urban Education in Changing Times; 4. Culture, Faith and Community; 5. Urban Education in a Global Context; 6. Policies in Urban Settings; Part III: Urban Education Policy into Practice; 7. Critical Urban Pedagogy; 8. Early Years Education in the Urban Context; 9. Urban Education and Emerging Learning Technologies; 10. Justice, Hope and Vision; References; Index.

'Changing Urban Education provides a stimulating and critical compendium for urban teachers, including those who are experienced, new and still in teacher education, and who are committed to more socially just pedagogies and curriculum for working class students. Here are both the intellectual and practical resources for teachers to reclaim and justify pedagogies, policies and curricula of hope to change urban schools in changing contexts against failed and reductive neo-liberal agendas.' Bob Lingard, Professorial Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia