Learning Cities: Multimodal Explorations and Placed Pedagogies

By Stephen Dobson

Book Overview

1 Learning cities: Introduction.- Part 1 Multimodal explorations of the city.- 2 Researching and photographing cities: Getting started.- 3 Coming to our sense: Multiculturalism, urban sociology, and 'the other' senses.- 4 English literacies in Medell?n: The city as literacy.- 5 Who is a city for? Reflections on children's narrative and design-led explorations.- 6 Signs of the city - Metropolis Speaking: Art-inspired youth and diversity in four European cities.- 7 Walking through spiritual neighbourhoods: A photo essay.- Part 2 Urban Pedagogies.- 8 Urban pedagogy and the need to develop city skills.- 9 Commercial ethnography: What are education researchers doing in the mall?.- 10 Learning around iconic buildings: Maps of experience in the making.- 11 Spaces of informal learning and cultures of translation and marginality in London's Jewish East End.- 12 Learning the sexual city.- 13 Learning in/from 'disadvantaged' communities: Connecting people and sites of learning.- 14 Learning how to smell a rat and identify the spaces: Community-based education and urban renewal.- 15 Afterword.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811340641
• ISBN13: 9789811340642
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"