Rethinking Spaces of Education

Marika Kettunen is a human geographer whose research interests revolve around geographies of youth and education. In this study, she brings multidisciplinary discussions concerning youth educational paths into dialogue with geographical theorizations of space. In doing so, the aim of the study is to investigate youth educational paths as ‘spaces of education’. Thinking space relationally, she explores the complexity of the spatial dynamics and inequalities that shape youth educational paths in Finland, with a particular focus on young people at the end of their comprehensive schooling.

Her work highlights the connections between and across a range of seemingly distant sites and scales, ranging from global economic relations to regional transformation and the everyday lives of northern Finnish young people.