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Accepted Paper:
Social and Spatial mobilities: Towards Planning education and beyond.
Paper examines the ways in which the narratives of social mobility and experiences of spatial mobilities and migration intersect.
Vikas John
(Indian Institute for Human Settlements)
Priya Singh
(Indian Institute for Human Settlements)
Paper short abstract:
The current paper looks at student and alumni trajectory in Planning education focussing on mobilities and migrations, at the confluence of individual aspiration and the promise of higher education; and the ways in which development of cities and regions are made sense of by aspiring learners.
Paper long abstract:
Higher education spaces are discursively constructed as sites of immense promise. This promise leads to two distinct types of mobilities among learners - social and spatial. The drive for social mobility engenders a spate of spatial mobilities and migrations. The current paper is situated at the intersection of these mobilities. It draws from work on student and alumni trajectories in Planning education, situated in contexts of Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India, under Work Package-5 of UCL-led KNOW project.
The paper engages with one emergent thread of analysis, focussing on translocal understandings of mobility and migration intersected with educational aspirations. As it is situated in the discipline of Planning education, it engages with values of equity and equality as 'made sense of' by learners and brought to bear in their practice of development of cities and regions - particularly in the Indian context. The study relied primarily on comparative qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, following the principles of narrative storytelling and reflexive methodology.
Consumption of education in the higher education space is a result of complex interplays between site and person. In this paper we posit that it is necessary to understand not only the bounded site-based influences that affect the trajectories of learners, but also look at the ways in which aspirations shape and influence their spatial mobilities and enduring migrations. Doing so allows us to understand the ways in which aspirational mobilities and migrations - both social and spatial, have an influence on the practice of development itself.
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Higher education spaces are discursively constructed as sites of immense promise. This promise leads to two distinct types of mobilities among learners - social and spatial. The drive for social mobility engenders a spate of spatial mobilities and migrations. The current paper is situated at the intersection of these mobilities. It draws from work on student and alumni trajectories in Planning education, situated in contexts of Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India, under Work Package-5 of UCL-led KNOW project.
The paper engages with one emergent thread of analysis, focussing on translocal understandings of mobility and migration intersected with educational aspirations. As it is situated in the discipline of Planning education, it engages with values of equity and equality as 'made sense of' by learners and brought to bear in their practice of development of cities and regions - particularly in the Indian context. The study relied primarily on comparative qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, following the principles of narrative storytelling and reflexive methodology.
Consumption of education in the higher education space is a result of complex interplays between site and person. In this paper we posit that it is necessary to understand not only the bounded site-based influences that affect the trajectories of learners, but also look at the ways in which aspirations shape and influence their spatial mobilities and enduring migrations. Doing so allows us to understand the ways in which aspirational mobilities and migrations - both social and spatial, have an influence on the practice of development itself.
Migration, Education and Development: Exploring the Nexus
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -