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In introducing the book, this chapter begins by identifying the lines of thought signalled by the title ‘Learning cities’. First, learning happens in the places and spaces where we dwell, work, recreate and pass through. Second, how to live in these places and spaces is learned, as we observe, sense and practice modes of participation and as we reflect on these experiences. The pluralisation of ‘cities’ is discussed in terms of a challenge to the traditional binary between the city and the country, as well as to the concept of a city as a complex aggregate, or network, of places which are experienced differently according to opportunity, access, membership and role. It explains the experiential view of learning which runs across the book’s diverse chapters and introduces the book’s two parts: multimodal explorations and urban pedagogies.
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Nichols, S. (2018). Introducing Learning Cities. In: Nichols, S., Dobson, S. (eds) Learning Cities. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 8. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8100-2_1
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