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Geography of education : scale, space and location in the study of education /

"Geography of Education sets out the scope of this emergent, interdisciplinary field. It illustrates the essential affinity of geographical and educational studies, by emphasising the geographical factors influencing educational systems and other forms of knowledge transfer. Discussing formal,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brock, Colin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents ; List of Figures ; List of Tables; Foreword ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 Geography, Education and the ' GeographyöfËducation ' ; Introduction ; The Nature of Geography and Education Compared ; Geography of Education as a Foundation Discipline ; The Emergence of a Geography of Education ; Marketization of Education, Information Flow and Geographies of Education ; Academic Geography Journals and Geographies of Education.
  • Sub-Disciplines of Geography and the Geography ofËducation Looking Ahead ; Chapter 2 The Geography of Educational Reality ; Introduction ; Theoretical and Conceptual Issues ; Space, Place and Scale in the Geography of Education ; Spatial Scales and Factors Affecting Education in Any Location ; Private Provision of Education in Spatial Perspective ; The Issue of Small National Scale ; Notions of an ' Education Space ' and ' Core/Periphery ' ; Concluding Comments.
  • Chapter 3 Aspects of the Geographies of EducationÈSystems Spatial Aspects of The Emergence of Education Systems ; Geographies of Education from the Second to Third UrbanÈRevolutions ; The Spatial Development of the Education System of the United States of America ; The Spatial Development of the Education Systems of the United Kingdom: With Special Reference to England ; Towards a Typology of Education Systems ; Education Under Attack ; Private Education Expansion ; Geographies of Cross-Border Education.
  • Historical Geographies of Educational Migration Contemporary International Student Migration ; Concluding Comments ; Chapter 4 Geographies of Non-Formal and InformalËducation ; Introduction ; Aspects of Historical Geography and Non-Formal Educationïn Britain ; Geographies of Contemporary Adult Education ; Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Spatial Considerations ; Children ' s, Young People ' s, Family and CommunityÈGeographies ; Education in Situations and Locations of Constraint andÈCoercion.
  • Education and the World of Work Concluding Comments ; Chapter 5 Geography, Survival and Sustainability ; Introduction ; Cyberspace and Education ; Globalization and Educational Disparity ; Geographies of Education and a Humanitarian Response ; Concluding Comments ; Conclusion ; References ; Index.