ORCID
- C Gristy: 0000-0002-2444-7371
Abstract
Social and cultural studies over the past 20 years have been witnessing a “spatial turn,” an intellectual engagement with place and space, as a response to a longstanding ontological and epistemological bias that has privileged time over space (Soja, 2008). This is part of a wider theoretical project that grapples with the “unremitting materiality of the world” (Thrift, 2006, p. 139). It appears to offer promise to those looking for acknowledgement that in education place and space matters, in particular in its spatiality of inequalities and injustices (Gulson & Symes, 2007). This chapter uses the work of theorist Henri Lefebvre as a starting point for a spatial engagement with education in rural places. Lefebvre offers a set of ideas to use in developing understanding of the issues observed, connecting these into wider conversations about education, particularly those concerned with equity and justice.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2020-07-01
Publication Title
Educational Research and Schooling in Rural Europe: An Engagement with Changing Patterns of Education, Space and Place
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
ISBN
9781648021633, 9781648021640, 9781648021657
Embargo Period
2023-07-01
First Page
303
Last Page
320
Recommended Citation
Gristy, C. (2020) 'Putting Lefebvre to Work on “The Rural”,', Educational Research and Schooling in Rural Europe: An Engagement with Changing Patterns of Education, Space and Place, , pp. 303-320. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Available at: 10.1108/978-1-64802-165-720251018
