Geographies of Alternative Education
Diverse Learning Spaces for Children and Young People
By Peter Kraftl
Published
Nov 12, 2014Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1447300502Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
May 8, 2013Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1447300496Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Nov 12, 2014Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1447320517Dimensions
Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Nov 12, 2014Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1447320524Dimensions
Imprint
Policy PressThis book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education - including Steiner, human scale and forest schools, care farms and homeschooling.Based on original research with teachers, parents and young people at over 50 learning spaces, Geographies of alternative education demonstrates the importance of a geographical lens for understanding alternative education. In so doing, it develops contemporary theories of autonomy, emotion/affect, habit, intergenerational relations and life-itself. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduates in the fields of geography, sociology, education and youth studies. Given ongoing concerns about the state's role in providing children's education, and an increase in the number of alternative education providers in the UK and elsewhere, the book also highlights several critical questions for policy makers and practitioners.
Peter Kraftl is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of four books and over 50 journal articles and book chapters about children's geographies, education, and geographies of architecture. He is an editor of Children's Geographies journal.
Introduction;
Conceptual frameworks: towards geographies of alternative education;
Alternative learning spaces in the UK: background to the case studies used in this book;
Connection/disconnection: positioning alternative learning spaces;
Mess/order: materials, timings, feelings;
Movement/embodiment: learning habits (I);
Inter/personal relations: scale, love and learning habits (II);
Towards the ‘good life’: alternative visions of learning, love and life-itelf;
Conclusion: Geographies of alternative education and the value of autonomous learning.