Space, Place and Educational Settings: An Introduction

Freytag, Tim; Lauen, Douglas Lee; Robertson, Susan L.

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“…Such methodological localism is nothing new, especially to those geographers who examine the intricate and multi-faceted nexus between space, place, and education. It is stressed that “the education literally takes place in the neighbourhood and educational landscapes are embedded in local communities, although they are exposed to and are part and parcel of educational policies and the ongoing dynamics of transformation at regional, national and international levels” (Freytag et al, 2022: 227). Thus, there are two established strands of studies within the geographies of education.…”

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Three waves of schooling marketization in urban China amid changing political economy since the 1990s

Zhang

2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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Schooling marketization is a global syndrome characterizing post-1980 societies. However, while many studies have examined the political economy and politics of schooling marketization in Western economies, China’s schooling marketization remains insufficiently understood. Moreover, the existing studies have the analytical tendency to fall into the trap of methodological nationalism, with an exclusive focus on the state restructuring under neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization, leading to schooling marketization being viewed as a static and locally homogeneous practice. This paper fills these gaps by developing a city-level and time-sensitive analysis of local practices of marketizing the urban schooling system in the post-reform age. Two cities in western China—Chengdu and Mianyang—are taken as cases for comparative analysis. We found three waves of schooling marketization in urban China that are driven by the changes in the political economy between the 1980s and 2010s. Through a cross-fertilization of the outward-looking approach to geographies of education and geographic political economy, we understand China’s schooling marketization as a state-mediated institutional transformation that is employed to serve the local economic restructuring/time-varying urban growth strategy, which is staged by the changing (inter)national political economy.

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Three waves of schooling marketization in urban China amid changing political economy since the 1990s

Zhang

2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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“…We sought to work with partner schools in different sectors of the municipality, in which the socio-economic and cultural environments were very different from each other [31][32][33][34]. Even though this tool may be used by schools with different levels, for the pilot study two basic schools were chosen-from grade 5 to grade 9 (10-15 years old), which corresponds to a full study cycle in Portugal.…”

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Survey on Student School Spaces: An Inclusive Design Tool for a Better School

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This paper presents interdisciplinary research focused on the collaborative redesign in schools, in which an inclusive design tool was created for assessing student feedback on their school spaces and considering it as input for creating a better learning environment. It was developed by a research team using a participatory approach in schools drawn from architecture, geography, and educational sciences, to provide a comprehensive and intertwined approach to school spaces, communities and learning activities. The “Survey on Student School Spaces” (S3S) tool and its methodology are described here, which is a combination of two procedures: a questionnaire and a walkthrough. The first engages a far-reaching sample of participants and makes use of an online platform, while the latter details and justifies those outputs and involves visiting the school with the participants. The S3S pilot study was implemented in two partner schools, which act as the first project case studies. The data provided by this tool acted as the basis for the design proposal for one of the case studies, which included the students’ feedback and involved all the community in the school’s refurbishment. Finally, a discussion was held on the outputs achieved that may contribute towards a participatory design approach in other schools, the validation of the tool per se, and its potential future development and application.

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Space, Place and Educational Settings: An Introduction

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Three waves of schooling marketization in urban China amid changing political economy since the 1990s

Three waves of schooling marketization in urban China amid changing political economy since the 1990s

Survey on Student School Spaces: An Inclusive Design Tool for a Better School

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