Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values

Abstract

Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education draws upon the author’s research into young people’s experiences of character education to examine the wider relationships between formal and informal education as well as moral landscapes and citizenship training. The research that informs this book is based on a series of studies that included critical policy analysis, archival fieldwork, and quantitative-qualitative methods involving interviews and short-term participatory ethnography. Bringing these sources of information together, the analyses reveal insights into the different ways in which youth citizenship and moral values are intertwined in and through the spaces of education within both historical and contemporary contexts. In doing so, the book centrally advances the importance of geographical lenses in understanding character education and citizenship formations among youths, specifically those of spatialities, multi-scalar politics, and geopolitics. The book is structured into six thematically substantial chapters accompanied by an introduction and a conclusion. The first two of these chapters lay the foundation of this book by reviewing the existing scholarship on