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Educational Landscapes and the Reduction of Socio-spatial Educational Inequality in the City

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This chapter deals with the question of whether, and in what conditions, a strategy for a municipal educational landscape can play a role in reducing segregation and educational inequality within social spaces. It starts out from findings gained through urban and regional research showing that processes of ethnic, social and demographic segregation have a negative effect on the educational opportunities of children in socially disadvantaged living areas. The author analyses the strategic approaches, instruments and institutional innovations with which the cities of Mannheim and Nuremberg, selected as examples, are attempting to improve the educational situation in specific urban districts.

Thomas Olk—Deceased

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    The project was based at the Institute of Pedagogy, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, and funded by vhw e.V., the Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development (03/2010 to 08/2013). The project was led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Olk, and the team of academics included Thomas Stimpel, Ivanka Somborski and Constanze Woide.

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    To gather information on the social and educational contextual conditions in the districts investigated, the project also developed a special instrument for socio-spatial monitoring (e.g. on education), then tested it out using the statistical data provided by the relevant city institutions.

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  1. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Franckeplatz 1, Haus 6, 06099, Halle/Saale, Germany

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  1. Urban and Regional Planning (ISR), Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany

    Angela Million

  2. Urban and Regional Planning (ISR), Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany

    Anna Juliane Heinrich

  3. Educational Science and Psychology, University of Siegen Educational Science and Psychology, Siegen, Germany

    Thomas Coelen

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Olk, T. (2017). Educational Landscapes and the Reduction of Socio-spatial Educational Inequality in the City. In: Million, A., Heinrich, A., Coelen, T. (eds) Education, Space and Urban Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38999-8_22

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