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SUMMARY:Imagining Community in the Suburbs: Space\, Pedagogy and Power - G
 lenn C. Savage\, The University of Melbourne\, Melbourne Graduate School o
 f Education
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Glenn will explore the notion of ‘communit
 y’ as it is articulated in current social and educational policy in Aust
 ralia\, and will also feature data from his current ethnographic research 
 that investigates the ways community is experienced and imagined by young 
 people in two socially disparate suburbs of Melbourne\, Australia. In doin
 g so\, he will examine Australia’s ‘community turn’ in politics\, wh
 ich mirrors recent UK reforms and which sees community emerge as a governa
 ble space through which certain individual and collective capacities can b
 e surveilled and nourished. Building on this\, he also will explore emergi
 ng educational policies in Australia\, which re-imagine schools as ‘lear
 ning communities’ in which the realms of academic excellence and equity 
 are seen to harmoniously operate. Drawing upon his emerging research data\
 , Glenn will then explore the ways community\, both in-and-around schools\
 , is experienced and imagined by young people. In particular\, he will exa
 mine the role of the imagination in positioning young people as members of
  particular classed and spatialised communities. He will also draw upon in
 -school data to canvas some of the tensions and paradoxes that emerge when
  two schools in very different social spaces attempt to imagine and govern
  themselves toward policy ideals of the ‘learning community’.
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ
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