Historical geographies of alternative, and non-formal education

Learning from the histories of Black education

Bibliographic Data

ID5697219
AuthorsJacob Fairless Nicholson (0000-0002-8150-9532, The London College, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue11
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12724
OpenAlexW4386812162
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited84

Shining a light on the various non-formal education spaces that have garnered attention in geographies of education over the past two decades, this review takes stock of how historical spaces of education and learning have become a key focus of this body of work. In so doing, the review signals prominent and emergent themes around which scholarship in this subdiscipline has cohered: most notably, geographies of citizenship and morality in informal education spaces, and the radical pedagogic practices of alternative education spaces. As well as looking back, the review also signals two areas that scholars in the field should consider engaging with more closely: Black education and decolonial education. Analysing literature in history and sociology on the Black education movement in Britain, the paper calls for geographies of education to engage more closely with work published in cognate disciplines and not to overlook the relational nature of decolonial education in global north contexts

Citizenship · Epistemology · Higher education · Informal education · Morality · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Studies · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies