Space, Place and Educational Settings

Space, Place and Educational Settings
Author: Tim Freytag
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030785971

This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book adopts quantitative and qualitative methodologies and explores a wide range of theoretical perspectives by drawing upon empirical cases and examples from France, Germany, Italy, the UK and North America, and presents and reflects ongoing research of international scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds such as education, human geography, public policy, sociology, and urban and regional planning. As such, it provides an interesting read for scholars, students and professionals in the broader field of social, cultural and educational studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners in the fields of education, pedagogy, social work, and urban and regional planning.

Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility

Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility
Author: van Melik, Rianne
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529219000

This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday practices of urban citizens. The contributors discuss how the virus made urban inequalities clearer, and redefined public spaces in the “new normal”.

Space and Place

Space and Place
Author: Yi-fu Tuan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 235
Release: 1977
Genre: Geographical perception
ISBN: 9780816608843

Place, Space and Hermeneutics

Place, Space and Hermeneutics
Author: Bruce B. Janz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2017-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319522140

This book analyzes the hermeneutics of place, raising questions about central issues such as textuality, dialogue, and play. It discusses the central figures in the development of hermeneutics and place, and surveys disciplines and areas in which a hermeneutic approach to place has been fruitful. It covers the range of philosophical hermeneutic theory, both within philosophy itself as well as from other disciplines. In doing so, the volume reflects the state of theorization on these issues, and also looks forward to the implications and opportunities that exist. Philosophical hermeneutics has fundamentally altered philosophy’s approach to place. Issues such as how we dwell in place, how place is imagined, created, preserved, and lost, and how philosophy itself exists in place have become central. While there is much research applying hermeneutics to place, there is little which both reflects on that heritage and critically analyzes a hermeneutic approach to place. This book fills that void by offering a sustained analysis of the central elements, major figures, and disciplinary applications of hermeneutics and place.

History, Space and Place

History, Space and Place
Author: Susanne Rau
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429509278

Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space, opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology, and explains how historical spatial analysis can be methodologically and conceptually conceived and carried out in practice. The case studies presented in the book come from the fields of urban history, the history of trade, and global history including the history of cartography, but its analysis is equally relevant to other fields of inquiry. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the theory and methodology of historical spatial analysis. Supported by Open Access funds of the University of Erfurt

The Space of Love

The Space of Love
Author: Vladimir Megre
Publisher: Ringing Cedars Press LLC
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780980181227

Nothing you have read in Books 1 and 2 has prepared you for Book 3-The Space of Love.

Space, Place and Gender

Space, Place and Gender
Author: Doreen Massey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745667759

This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues. The book is organized around the three themes of space, place and gender. It traces the development of ideas about the social nature of space and place and the relation of both to issues of gender and debates within feminism. It is debates in these areas which have been crucial in bringing geography to the centre of social sciences thinking in recent years, and this book includes writings that have been fundamental to that process. Beginning with the economy and social structures of production, it develops a wider notion of spatiality as the product of intersecting social relations. In turn this has lead to conceptions of 'place' as essentially open and hybrid, always provisional and contested. These themes intersect with much current thinking about identity within both feminism and cultural studies. Each of the themes is preceded by a section which reflects on the development of ideas and sets out the context of their production. The introduction assesses the current state of play and argues for the close relationship of new thinking on each of these themes. This book will be of interest to students in geography, social theory, women's studies and cultural studies.