Geographies of education: A journey

Peter Kraftl*, Will Andrews, Suzanne Beech, Giulia Ceresa, Sarah Holloway, Vicky Johnson, Cath White

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Abstract

This paper provides a critical overview of scholarship on the geographies of education. The article explores some of the key roots, linguistic traditions and conceptual underpinnings of what has become a burgeoning and diverse area of scholarship. It emphasises the different subdisciplinary areas to which research on geographies of education has contributed, including work on social reproduction, the relationship between education spaces and their 'outsides', the agency of learners, structural inequalities, learners' experiences, materialities and mobilities. The paper concludes with some suggestions about future work on geographies of education, identifying key areas of potential in terms of connection: with scholarship on geography education; with research going on outside geography; with scholarship on education spaces less well‐represented thus far (such as Further Education); and with research on and from non‐Anglophone contexts and the Majority Global South.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15-23
Number of pages9
JournalArea
Volume54
Issue number1
Early online date9 Jan 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This paper was developed and written during an RGS-IBG Geography and Education Research Group conference and workshop in December 2019. The authors gratefully acknowledge the organisers and participants at that event for their comments and input – and especially Ruth Healey, Matt Finn, and Harry West. Finally, we are grateful to the anonymous reviewers, and to the journal’s Editors, for their helpful and constructive comments.

Publisher Copyright:
The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2021 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

Keywords

  • education
  • inequality
  • learning
  • materiality
  • mobility
  • social reproduction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development

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