This chapter will review the history of urban education in the UK, discussing the major strengths and limitations of literature in the field, and offering suggestions as to its further development. First, it will investigate briefly the development of the field of the history of urban education in the UK over the past 30 years. It will then analyze in greater detail the relationship between urban society and educational provision, evidenced for example in research on education and social class, the historical geography of education and literacy, and the experience of education among city children. Third, it will examine the historical characteristics of educational reform in a number of different urban contexts, including the highly significant and distinctive case of London, and the more recent attempts to promote educational change through urban-based initiatives such as city technology colleges and the Education Action Zones.
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McCulloch, G. (2007). History of Urban Education in the United Kingdom. In: Pink, W.T., Noblit, G.W. (eds) International Handbook of Urban Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5199-9_49
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