Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini, Katrine Mygind Bach

Nurturing Mobilities (eBook, PDF)

Family Travel in the 21st Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nurturing Mobilities employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today - and what happens when they do. Vitally, it examines the two biggest contemporary issues in global mobility: COVID-19, and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000463071
• Artikelnr.: 62503690

Autorenporträt

Claire Maxwell is a professor at sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research has focused on the ways the internationalisation of education has shaped education systems and how elite forms of provision are being developed and embedded around the world. A second focus has been on the lives of globally mobile professionals and their families, examining school choice, identities and family practices.

Miri Yemini is a comparative education scholar at Tel Aviv University, Israel, with interests in internationalisation of education in schools and higher education, global citizenship education, and education in conflict-ridden societies, with a particular focus on the role of mobility in educational experiences. Dr. Yemini is an active member of CIES, CESE and BAICE and she is a President Elect for the Israeli Comparative Education Society.

Katrine Mygind Bach holds a Masters in Global Development and a Bachelor degree in Sociology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Previously, she spent several years in India working in the field of rural development. Her research focuses on the intersection between social and environmental sustainability, and the role of climate governance in these processes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Establishing the field: why we travel and why it matters
3. Thinking with travel
4. Parents talking about family travel
5. Travel as integral to class-making practices
6. Global middle class families: the children as active and seasoned globe trotters
7. Young people discuss travel
8. Alternative modes of family travel: new articulations of global citizenship education
9. From tourist gaze to carbon gaze: travelling in a time of climate concerns
10. Conclusion
Commentary: final reflections on nurturing mobilities