Research Catalog

Title

Radical urban solutions : urban renaissance for city schools and communities / Dick Atkinson.

Author

Atkinson, Dick.

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Cassell, 1994.

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Details

Description

x, 166 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This text examines the urban and educational crisis in modern Britain. It outlines and explains the problems, and suggests a series of inter-related solutions based on existing good educational practice from around the country.

Series Statement

Cassell education

Uniform Title

Cassell education

Subject

• Education, Urban > Great Britain > Case studies
• Inner cities > Great Britain > Case studies
• Community and school > Great Britain > Case studies
• School autonomy > Great Britain > Case studies
• Community and school
• Education, Urban
• Inner cities
• School autonomy
• Innenstadt
• Qualitätssteigerung
• Schule
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Problem of Urban Decline: Charitable Urban Solutions -- 2. Scale of the Urban and Educational Problem -- 3. From General Problem to Particular Solution -- 4. St Paul's Community Education Project Ltd -- 5. From the Particular to the General Solution -- 6. End of Town Hall LEAs -- Pt. 2. New Self-governing Neighbourhood School -- 7. Signposts of Success -- 8. New Curriculum -- 9. New Teacher -- 10. Clusters of Neighbouring Schools -- Pt. 3. Refocusing Local Government and Political Theory -- 11. New Authority for New Schools and Town Halls -- 12. Urban Village -- 13. Collectivism and Individualism -- 14. New Urban Academy. 15. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0304328286
• 9780304328284
• 0304328308
• 9780304328307

LCCN

94181823

OCLC

• ocm30027224
• 30027224
• SCSB-8924030

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library