B6 Education

Barbara Spender, Christopher Noden and Alison Stott (2011) "Education, learning and community in New Earswick 	JRF Report  yes A3 B6 C1b. 

An exploration of the history and development of education, learning and the community in New Earswick, York, since it was founded by Joseph Rowntree in the early 20th century.This book, which is available to download free, has two main purposes: to look at how some of the ideas that underpinned the creation of the village have worked in practice, and how they are still relevant today; and to celebrate and reflect upon the creation of the Children's Centre within the renovated New Earswick Primary School and the brand new Joseph Rowntree (secondary) School.

The wealth of pictures, information, comment and analysis in this book make it an interesting read for a number of different audiences, including residents of New Earswick and the surrounding area, and people with a more specialist interest in education, community development and social justice from either a historical or contemporary perspective. 

View an image gallery of some the pictures taken as part of the report.

Tiffany, G. (2009) "Community philosophy: A project report 	JRF Report  yes A1e B6 C1b. 
	
Reflections on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's New Earswick Community Philosophy Project. This three-year experiment used an approach called 'Community Philosophy' to promote conversations and develop positive relationships between different groups of people within a community. This report:
    draws on the examination and analysis that was part of the project's day-to-day activity;
    captures the reflections of the project director and participants in the project;
describes the theory behind the project, along with its activities (in the form of a series of practice-based     examples); and
derives lessons of use to people who work in the community, especially youth and community workers, and those with responsibility for community involvement and organisational governance.

Webb, R., et al. (2004). A multi-agency approach to reducing disaffection and exclusions from school, Department for Education and Skills. yes A1d B6 C2
	Describes a Government funded project located in seven schools in four urban areas of North Yorkshire and in the city of York, which aimed to reduce the number of exclusions by placing full time school based home school support workers. Examines the role of the support workers. Profiles the pupils and considers the experiences of four of the young people. Evaluates the impact of the project on exclusion rates and reducing offences. Provides examples of interagency working and documents the strategies used by the support workers in their casework with pupils and their families.

Zymek, B. and J. Richter (2007). "International comparative analysis of regional school development - Yorkshire and Westphalia." Zeitschrift Fur Padagogik 53(3): 326-350. yes A1d B6 C3
	The authors integrate selected empirical findings from two research projects in order to assess the usefulness of an international comparative analysis of regional school development for comparative educational science. Official data on general secondary schools in two English (York and Bradford) and two German (Muenster and Bochum) cities are systematized in tables and evaluated in two steps: it is shown that school regulations in both England and North Rhine-Westphalia offer a broad spectrum of principles and instruments for a subdividsion into different school types, which has led to the development of region-specific and highly differentiated structures of schooling in each of these cities. Furthermore, data on the interconnection between individual schools based upon regional social conditions reveals an inofficial typology of schools which supplements or overrides other dimensions of a school's profile development. Finally, the results of the empirical analysis are discussed within the context of recent debates on educational science and politics.