ABSTRACT

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; conceptualizing education more broadly through a nuanced exploration of:

  • the various spaces where education occurs;
  • the non-dominant practices and possibilities of those spaces;
  • the possibilities of enabling social systems, institutions, and programs of comprehensive education.

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. Thinking Comprehensively About Education is a must-read for faculty, students, policy analysts, and policymakers.

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

Social Space and the Political Economy of Comprehensively Conceived Education

part 1|61 pages

Social Systems and the Produced Spaces of Comprehensively Conceived Education

chapter 3|20 pages

Products of the revolution

The Social System of Comprehensively Conceived Education in Cuba

chapter 4|17 pages

The ethnic system of supplementary education

Lessons From Chinatown and Koreatown, Los Angeles

part 2|36 pages

Programmatic and Institutional Production of Spaces of Comprehensively Conceived Education

chapter 7|18 pages

The drum in the dojo

Re-Sounding Embodied Experience in Taiko Drumming

part 3|69 pages

Nondominant Everyday-Spatial Practices of Comprehensively Conceived Education

chapter 9|18 pages

Theoretical analysis of resilience and identity

An African American Engineer's Life Story

chapter 11|13 pages

We are the ones

Educative Possibilities in Youth Poetry

part 4|43 pages

Toward a Public Policy Agenda on Comprehensively Conceived Education

chapter 12|16 pages

The challenges of developing a robust knowledge base on complementary education

Toward a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda

chapter 14|9 pages

School reform

A Limited Strategy in National Education Policy