EDUC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 38: Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Urban education provides a curriculum and pedagogy that increases the life opportunities and the practice of responsible citizenship of those residing in urban communities. Urban education for equity, diversity, and social justice reconceptualises such communities as culturally rich, wealth generating, and potentially transformative. Approaches that engage students in collectivist and interdependent learning: students, classmates, and teacher facilitator engage each other in the pedagogical process. Key objective of urban education is to develop the social and cultural capital of the community. Educators must be creative in helping inner city, economically-poor residents develop the social networking skills such as reaching across social difference , collaboration, negotiation, maintaining stability and academic institutions needed for community growth. To achieve this goal, urban education must disobey traditional institutional borders of schools and link with community based organizations. Ex: churches, service clubs, social service agencies and youth clubs to form collaborative networks.
