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Informal Education, Childhood and Youth Geographies, Histories, Practices Editedby Sarah Mills and Peter Kraftl Informal Education, Childhood and Youth This page intentionally left blank Informal Education, Childhood and Youth Geographies, Histories, Practices Editedby Sarah Mills DepartmentofGeography,LoughboroughUniversity,UK and Peter Kraftl DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofLeicester,UK Selectionandeditorialmatter©SarahMillsandPeterKraftl2014 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-02772-6 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthis workinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-43972-0 ISBN 978-1-137-02773-3 (eBook) DOI10.1057/9781137027733 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. For Mom, Dad and Edward SM For Mum, Dad and Martin PK This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures x Acknowledgements xii NotesonContributors xiv 1 Introduction:Geographies,HistoriesandPractices ofInformalEducation 1 SarahMillsandPeterKraftl Part I NatureSpaces 2 Inside-out:ConnectingIndoorandOutdoorSpaces ofInformalEducationthroughtheExtraordinary GeographiesofTheBoys’BrigadeCamp 21 RichardG.Kyle 3 ‘LikeaScoutDoes...LikeaGuideDoes...’:TheScoutor GuideCamp’sLessonsofIdentity 36 CatherineBannister 4 ‘Alternative’EducationSpacesandLocalCommunity Connections:ACaseStudyofCareFarming intheUnitedKingdom 48 PeterKraftl 5 ‘APowerfulEducationalInstrument’:TheWoodcraftFolkand Indoor/Outdoor‘Nature’,1925–75 65 SarahMills Part II NegotiatingIn/formalEducationSpaces 6 People,PlacesandSpaces:EducationinRobertOwen’s NewSociety 81 IanDonnachie 7 TheTarpaulinandtheTablecloth:CoverandNon-Traditional EducationinTraditionalSpacesofSchooling 97 StephenT.Sadlier vii viii Contents 8 LimitingSpacesofInformalLearningamongStreetChildren inPerú 112 DenaAufseeser 9 LearningHowtoBehaveinSchool:AStudyoftheExperiences ofChildrenandYoungPeoplewithSocio-emotional Differences 124 SophieBowlby,JenniferLeaandLouiseHolt 10 Education,TechnologyandtheDisruptiveInnovations ChallengingtheFormal/InformalEducationDivide 140 KateEdwards Part III YouthWorkSpaces 11 RehearsalSpacesasChildren’sSpaces?ConsideringthePlace ofNon-formalMusicEducation 165 LukeDickensandDouglasLonie 12 ManagingtheSpacesofFreedom:Mid-twentieth-Century YouthWork 184 SimonBradford 13 FeminismandInformalEducationinYouthWorkwithGirls andYoungWomen,1975–85 197 JeanSpence 14 AfterSchool:TheDisruptiveWorkofInformalEducation 216 RichardDavies Part IV Youth-LedSpaces 15 CatalysingCulturalChange:Youth-ledCulturalDevelopment asInformalEducation 231 ShaneneDitton 16 Learningin/throughPublicSpace:YoungGirlsandFeminist Consciousness-raising 244 MariaRodó-de-ZárateandMireiaBaylina 17 LeadingtheWay:Youth-LedNon-formalLearninginthe GirlScouts 257 DeniseGoerisch 18 iLearn:Engaging(In)FormalLearninginYoungPeople’s MediatedEnvironments 270 GregoryT.Donovan Contents ix Part V Conclusion 19 ConcludingReflections 285 PeterKraftlandSarahMills Index 292
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