Alternative Education and Community Engagement

1. Front Matter

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2. Making Education a Priority: An Overview

   • Ornette D. Clennon

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3. Alternative Education as Protest

   • Ornette D. Clennon

   Pages 34-52

4. Do Supplementary Schools Provide Holistic Learning That Is Able to Promote Cultural Identity?

   • Ornette D. Clennon

   Pages 53-73

5. Shoe Horning the Arts into Education; for Whose Benefit? Arts-Led Special Schools

   • Ornette D. Clennon

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6. The Great Debate? Free, Studio and Co-operative Schools

   • Ornette D. Clennon

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7. Where Do We Go from Here? Towards a Community-Led Approach to Education

   • Ornette D. Clennon

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8. Back Matter

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This book explores the ethical and philosophical issues behind the provision of market-led alternative education. The volume examines the models of Free, Studio, Supplementary and Co-operative school provisions, asking whether a market-based approach to delivering higher standards of education actually works.

• Free Schools
• Knowledge is Power Programme (KIPP)
• Charter Schools
• Sure Start
• Supplementary Schools
• Saturday Schools
• Studio Schools
• Enterprise Education
• Co-operative Schools
• Co-operative Movement
• critical pedagogy
• Minecraft
• collaborative learning
• independent learning
• market-led education provision
• BAME achievement
• resistance
• protest
• creative curriculum
• school attractiveness
• education
• learning
• school
• Standards

• Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

  Ornette D. Clennon, Cassie Earl

• Newman University, UK

  Kehinde Andrews

Diane Abbott, Member of Parliament, UK Cassie Earl, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Kehinde Andrews, Newman University, UK

Policies and ethics