Session Information
23 SES 02 A, Collective Actions, Alliances and Resistance of Children, Young People and Teachers (Part 2)
Symposium, continued from 23 SES 01 A
Time:
2009-09-28
11:15-12:45
Room:
HG, HS 28
Chair:
Gaby Weiner
Discussant:
Lyn Yates
Contribution
As a response to changes in capitalist production in the late 20th century, education has become increasingly associated with individualistic discourses of responsibility for inclusion, lifelong learning, self-regulating behaviour and mobility in the European context. This paper draws attention to the fact that geographical mobility, as a form of human agency, is closely related to social mobility and hence to space and class (Ball 2006). Using life history interviews and statistical data the paper explores how space and class become related to education and social inclusion and exclusion in three Swedish contexts as young people are spatially situated but move; want to move; dream about moving; try to move and fail to move through, in and out of different forms of communities (cf. Gulson & Symes 2007). The analysis displays how mobility of youth is framed by classed local traditions and conditions that enable and restrict. Mobility might involve processes of personal development and learning or be the calculated prerequisite for the individual career. However mobility might also take on the form of a flight from a stigmatized place. The deliberate refusal of mobility is also discussed as a form of agency.
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