Learning the City

This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective. This book approaches the city as a cultural fabric that consists of social, material and symbolic dimensions, and describes how civic learning is not an accidental outcome of cities but an essential component through which citizens coproduce the city. Through a combination of theoretical development and methodological reflection the chapters in the book explore three interrelated questions addressing the relationships between culture, learning and the city: How does civic learning appear in urban spaces? How does civic learning take place through urban spaces? How are urban spaces created as a result of civic learning?

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction. Hari Sacré & Sven De Visscher.- Chapter 2: Geographies of Hanging out: Playing, dwelling and thinking with the city. Noora Pyyry.- Chapter 3: Storytelling in Urban spaces: Exploring storytelling as a social work intervention in processes of urbanization. Hari Sacré et al.- Chapter 4: The inner city skater facility playground or control mechanism? On urban youth, civic learning and pedagogical dilemmas. Peter Hornboek and David Thore Gravesen.- Chapter 5: Space is more than place: The urban context as contested terrain of inclusive learning settings for adults and arena of political subjectivation. Silke Schreiber-Barsch.- Chapter 6: (Re)-Learning the city for intergenerational exchange. Helen Manchester and Keri Fraser.