Thinking comprehensively about education : spaces of educative possibility and their implications for public policy / edited by Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román and Edmund W. Gordon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : social space and the political economy of comprehensively conceived education / Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román -- Toward a reconceptualization of education / Edmund W. Gordon with Paola C. Heincke and Kavitha Rajagopalan -- Products of the revolution : the social system of comprehensively conceived education in Cuba / Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román -- The ethnic system of supplementary education : lessons from Chinatown and Koreatown, Los Angeles / Min Zhou -- San Diego's diamond neighborhoods and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation / Andrea Yoder Clark and Tracey Bryan -- Re-storying the spaces of education through narrative / Lalitha Vasudevan and Kristine Rodriguez Kerr -- The drum in the Dojo : re-sounding embodied experience in Taiko drumming / Kimberly Powell -- The cultural modeling of comprehensively conceived education / Carol Lee -- Theoretical analysis of resilience and identity : an African American engineer's life story / Ebony McGee and Margaret Beale Spencer -- Exploring educative possibility through the process of learning in youth sports / Na'ilah Suad Nasir -- We are the ones : educative possibilities in youth poetry / Korina Jocson -- The challenges of developing a robust knowledge base on complementary education : toward a policy-relevant research agenda / Jacob Leos-Urbel and J. Lawrence Aber -- A broader and bolder approach for Newark / Lauren Wells and Pedro Noguera -- School reform : a limited strategy in National Education Policy / Edmund W. Gordon and Paola C. Heincke.

"While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and practices. This original edited collection identifies and describes the resources that enable optimal human learning and development, and offers a public policy framework that can enable a truly comprehensive educational system"-- Provided by publisher.

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