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Urban Renewal from the inside out: Spatial and Critical Literacies in a Low Socioeconomic School Community
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Comber, Barbara; Nixon, Helen; Ashmore, Louise; Loo, Stephen; Cook, Jackie – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2006
This article focuses on how teachers worked to build a meaningful curriculum around changes to a neighborhood and school grounds in a precinct listed for urban renewal. Drawing on a long-term relationship with the principal and one teacher, the researchers planned and designed a collaborative project to involve children as active participants in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Poverty Areas, Urban Renewal