New from Routledge: Education and the ‘mobility turn’ edited by Kalervo Gulson and Colin Symes

New from Routledge:

Education and the ‘mobility turn’

edited by Kalervo Gulson and Colin Symes

The ‘mobile turn’ in human geography, sociology and cultural studies has resulted in a hitherto unparalleled focus on the critical role that mobility plays in conserving and regenerating society and culture. In this instance, ‘mobility’ refers not just to the physical movement of goods and peoples, ideas and symbols; but it can also be analytically applied to the technologies used to facilitate their movement. One such technology is education, which has yet to fall under the purview of the mobility lens – something that this collection endeavours to redress. Its contributing authors, drawn from Canada, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, explore salient issues relating to education and mobility. These include studies of the career implications for academics moving across borders, the impact of university study on prison populations, policy mobility and the charter school movement, affect theory and policy development in Canada, educational advertising on Sydney trains and stations and the employment mobile approaches to track policy development and implementation. One notable feature of the mobility turn is the willingness of its adoptees to explore innovative research methods. Variously demonstrating the efficacy and cogency of autoethnography, affect theory, textual ethnography and human geography for a mobility-empowered education analytics, this collection is no exception.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

Kalervo N. Gulson and Colin Symes

Introduction: Making moves: theorizations of education and mobility

 

Amy Scott Metcalfe

Nomadic political ontology and transnational academic mobility

 

Helen Farley and Susan Hopkins

The prison is another country: incarcerated students and (im)mobility in Australian prisons

 

Dan Cohen

Market mobilities/immobilities: mutation, path-dependency,

and the spread of charter school policies in the United States

 

Marcia McKenzie

Affect theory and policy mobility: challenges and possibilities

for critical policy research

 

Colin Symes and Christopher Drew

Education on the rails: a textual ethnography of university advertising in mobile contexts

 

Kalervo N. Gulson, Steven Lewis, Bob Lingard, Christopher Lubienski,

Keita Takayama and P. Taylor Webb

Policy mobilities and methodology:

a proposition for inventive methods in education policy studies

 

See https://www.routledge.com/Education-and-the-Mobility-Turn/Gulson-Symes/p/book/9780367001810