1st Edition

Materialities and Mobilities in Education

By Rachel Brooks, Johanna Waters Copyright 2018
168 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Materialities and Mobilities in Education develops new arguments about the ways in which educational processes can be analysed. Drawing on a recent interest in mobilities across the social sciences, and a conterminous resurgence in academic accounts of materialities, the book demonstrates how these two ostensibly differing perspectives on education might be fruitfully deployed in tandem.... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: The materiality of education  Chapter 3: Buildings and bodies  Chapter 4: Mobilities in education: movement and flows  Chapter 5: Transnational (educational) mobilities  Chapter 6: The convergence of materiality and movement  Chapter 7: Convergence within urban education  Afterword

Biography

Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK and an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Johanna Waters is Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford, UK.