Session Information
25 SES 13 (JS), Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion in Urban Contexts
Joint Symposium with NW 5, 23, 25
Contribution
Schools within urban contexts, because of their close physical proximity and shared issues, often engage in a range of informal collaborative activities in order to support certain groups of pupils and staff. In the UK context a range of collaborative initiatives have been developed, in order to improve the quality of educational provision on offer and to combat social exclusion. Schools in urban contexts are increasingly likely to engage in a range of different collaborative activities because of new funding arrangements that encourage certain types of formal collaborations and economic cut backs that are reducing the support on offer from local government. In the midst of the changes brought about by central government policies and the current economic situation there is a need critically to examine the potential and problems of collaboration between schools, from networks to formal federations, aimed at dealing with the endemic problems in these communities. In this paper we draw on a recent study of a national collaborative CPD programme, and prior research into networking in urban contexts in the UK and internationally, to critically examine a series of questions about what forms of collaboration are effective, and for what purposes, in highly challenging urban contexts.
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