Making Schools Different

This internationally-minded book helps the reader to reflect on the ways young people are taught, and presents possible alternative approaches.

With a foreword by Professor Stephen Ball

What can we do with students who don′t succeed in the typical classroom, and what are the alternatives to full-time schooling?

With contributions from leading academics from Canada, America, the UK, The Netherlands and Australia, this internationally-minded book helps the reader to reflect on the ways young people are taught, and presents possible alternative approaches. Global social and economic changes and technological developments are driving the need for change within education, so that we can better cater for a diversity of young people. This book offers a forward-looking overview of where we are now, and where we might want to go in the future.

It includes chapters on:

- educational innovations;

- learning identities;

- learning spaces;

- e-learning and remote students;

- alternatives in education.

This book will open your mind to the changing experience of schooling, and highlights new and different ways to help those whose needs simply don′t fit into the usual mould.

Suitable for all those on all undergraduate and postgraduate Education courses, and for those on Education Studies and Childhood and Youth courses, this book is an engaging, thought-provoking read.

Kitty te Riele is a Senior Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney

Educational Innovation for Young People - Kitty te Riele
Alternative Schooling in the USA - Laudan Aron
The Need for Dialogue in Vocational Education - Frans Meijers
New Adulthood, Youth and Identity - Meg Maguire
Learning Identities for Living - Helen Stokes and Johanna Wyn
Doing Identity Differently in Practice - Kitty te Riele (Case Study 6.1) and Frans Meijers (Case Study 6.2)
Embedding the Ethic of Care in School Policies and Practices - Kumari Beck and Wanda Cassidy
Pedagogy of Hope - Kitty te Riele
Engaging Disaffected Young People - Linda Milbourne
Doing Pedagogy Differently in Practice - Jann Eason (Case Study 10.1) and Linda Milbourne (Case Study 10.2)
Learning Spaces in Educational Partnerships - Terri Seddon and Kathleen Ferguson
E-Learning Technologies and Remote Students - Stephen Crump
Part-time Schooling - Marie Brennan, Eleanor Ramsay, Alison Mackinnon and Katherine Hodgetts
Doing Place and Time Differently in Practice - Kathleen Ferguson and Terri Seddon (Case Study 14.1), Kylie Twyford and Stephen Crump (Case Study 14.2) and Katherine Hodgetts (Case Study 14.3)
Learning from Indigenous Education - Wanda Cassidy and Ann Chinnery