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Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city. (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2013). Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city. Social and Cultural Geography, 14(6), 625-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.800220

For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiar... Read More about Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city..

Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school. (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2014). Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(1), 102-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12015

In the UK, schools are considered vital to the realisation of intercultural cities, to the strengthening of community relations and to the development of new forms of social learning. This paper brings work on the geographies of education and learnin... Read More about Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school..