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While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and practices; conceptualizing education more broadly through a nuanced exploration of: the various spaces where education occurs; the non-dominant practices and possibilities of those spaces; the possibilities of enabling social systems, institutions, and programs of comprehensive education. This original edited collection identifies and describes the resources that enable optimal human learning and development, and offers a public policy framework that can enable a truly comprehensive educational system. Thinking Comprehensively About Education is a must-read for faculty, students, policy analysts, and policymakers. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Space and the Political Economy of Education Conceived Comprehensively Chapter 2 Toward a Re-conceptualization of Education: Social Systems & the Produced Spaces of Education Comprehensively Conceived Chapter 3 Products of the Revolution: The Social System of Comprehensively Conceived Education in Cuba Chapter 4 The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Lessons from Chinatown and Koreatown, Los Angeles Chapter 5 San Diego’s Diamond Neighborhoods and The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation: Programmatic & Institutional Production of Spaces of Education Comprehensively Conceived Chapter 6 Re-Storying the Spaces of Education through Narrative Chapter 7 The Drum in the Dojo: Re-sounding Embodied Experience in Taiko Drumming–Non-Dominant Everyday-Spatial Practices of Education Comprehensively Conceived Chapter 8 The Cultural Modeling of Comprehensively Conceived Education Chapter 9 Theoretical Analysis of Resilience and Identity: An African American Engineer’s Life Story Chapter 10 Exploring Educative Possibility Through the Process of Learning in Youth Sports Chapter 11We are the Ones: Educative Possibilities in Youth Poetry – Toward a Public Policy Agenda on Education Comprehensively Conceived Chapter 12 The Challenges of Developing a Robust Knowledge Base on Complementary Education: Toward a Policy Relevant Research Agenda Chapter 13 A Broader and Bolder Approach for Newark Chapter 14 School Reform: A Limited Strategy in National Education Policy