Geographies of education and the significance of children, youth and families
Open Access
- 25 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Progress in Human Geography
- Vol. 34 (5), 583-600
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510362601
Abstract
This paper engages with Hanson Thiem’s (2009) critique of geographies of education. Accepting the premise that education warrants fuller attention by geographers, the paper nonetheless argues that engaging with research on children, youth and families reshapes understanding of what has been, and might be, achieved. Foregrounding young people as the subjects rather than objects of education demands that attention be paid to their current and future life-worlds, in both inward and outward looking geographies of education. It also requires a broadening of our spatial lens, in terms of what ‘count’ as educational spaces, and the places where we study these.Keywords
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