GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION

GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION

Loughborough University

8-9th September 2009

Responding to the growing interest in spaces of education within geography and cognate disciplines, this conference will provide a unique opportunity for debating key themes and concepts concerning the production, consumption and governance of education at different scales and in different cultural contexts. Recognising the diversity of sites of education and learning which are accessed at different stages of the life-course, it is intended that the conference will address issues relating to primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as the wider production and circulation of knowledge within these spaces. Papers are hence welcomed which address any of the following themes:

· School catchments, parental choices and access to education

· Inclusions and exclusions in spaces of education

· Extended schools, families and communities

· The university in its social and cultural context

· Studentification and student cities

· Academic mobilities and migrations

· The globalization of education

C The conference is supported by the Centre for Research in Identity, Community, Society (CRICS), based in the Department of Geography, Loughborough University, the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) and the Children, Youth and Family Working Group (CYFWG) of the Royal Geographical Society. There will be a number of bursaries to support the attendance of new career, postgraduate and unwaged delegates.

Please send abstracts (no more then 250 words please) to Prof. Phil Hubbard (P.J.Hubbard@lboro.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Holloway ( S.L.Holloway@lboro.ac.uk) by 1st December 2008.