ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the materiality of education. Educational research often gives primacy to the analysis of social interactions between people rather than things and to the study of discourses rather than what is sometimes considered to be quite 'mundane' materiality. The materiality of education is bound up with the objects that are used as part of processes of learning. The materiality of new technologies can be seen as bound up with increased forms of commercialisation and privatisation within educational institutions. The materiality of the human body has, historically, been neglected by educationalists and other social scientists, but nevertheless plays an important part in practices of learning alongside landscapes, buildings, objects and technologies. The term 'material culturalist' can be applied to a wide range of researchers who have an interest in material culture.
