Alternative Education and Community Engagement: Making Education a Priority [Hardcover]

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.1. Making Education a Priority: An Overview; Ornette D Clennon 2. Alternative Education as Protest; Ornette D. Clennon Education and Social Change: A Theoretical Approach; Cassie Earl 3. Do Supplementary Schools Provide Holistic Learning that is able to Promote Cultural Identity?; Ornette D Clennon Resisting Racism: The Black Supplementary School Movement; Kehinde Andrews 4. Shoe Horning the Arts into Education; for whose Benefit? Arts-led Special Schools; Ornette D Clennon 5. The Great Debate? Free, Studio and Co-operative Schools; Ornette D Clennon 6. Where do we go from Here? Towards a Community-Led Approach to Education; Ornette D ClennonDiane Abbott, Member of Parliament, UKCassie Earl, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKKehinde Andrews, Newman University, UK