ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an empirically driven example of the ways in which materiality and movement are closely intertwined and often interdependent. It focuses on learning what takes place within urban contexts (acknowledging that cities, specifically, have attracted considerable attention and resources from policymakers, who have frequently problematised the level of educational attainment within them). The chapter explains the authors' decision to explore urban education in particular, and considers the extent to which it differs from education in other contexts. It notes that the urban has often been considered a 'policy laboratory' with respect to educational reform. The chapter turns to building an argument about the mutually constitutive nature of materiality and mobility. It investigates the ways in which the materiality of both schools and higher education institutions affect mobility into and within urban areas, before moving on to consider the influence of mobility on the materialities of schools, universities and the urban environment more generally.
