Learning Cities: Multimodal Explorations and Placed Pedagogies
Mar 2018 · Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education Book 8 · Springer
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This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied linguistics and sensory studies, this collection of papers develops and demonstrates the connection between experience, in all its dimensions, and informal learning in the city. The chapters discuss various sensory domains of experience, considering visual, embodied, and even sexual dimensions in relation to what and how learning operates, and the contributors reflect on their learning and inquiring experiences in the city, with special reference to topics such as narrativity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, equity, urban literacy, re-generation, participation, representation and oral histories.
About the author
Sue Nichols is an educational researcher whose work crosses diverse contexts of formal and informal education. Using ethnographic, ecological and semiotic approaches she is particularly interested in how knowledge and practice is mobilised and circulates between contexts. Sue has edited and authored several books including Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources (Routledge, 2017). She is currently Associate Professor of Education at the University of South Australia.
Stephen Dobson is Professor and Dean of the School of Education, University of South Australia. Prior to entering higher education, he worked with refugees in community contexts for thirteen years. His interests include assessment, professional development, refugee studies, bildung, inclusion and classroom studies. He has recently published Assessing the Viva in Higher Education. Chasing Moments of Truth (Springer publishers, 2017).
Stephen Dobson is Professor and Dean of the School of Education, University of South Australia. Prior to entering higher education, he worked with refugees in community contexts for thirteen years. His interests include assessment, professional development, refugee studies, bildung, inclusion and classroom studies. He has recently published Assessing the Viva in Higher Education. Chasing Moments of Truth (Springer publishers, 2017).
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