ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a conceptual overview to studying moral geographies within disciplinary human geography. A geographical approach utilises key concepts of space, place and scale to understand the socio-spatial dynamics of everyday life. The chapter focuses on the moral geographies of childhood, youth and education. Several scholars have demonstrated how educational spaces are influenced by wider social constructions of childhood, for example the powerful construction of children as either ‘angels or devils’ or wider idea(l)s and moral landscapes of childhood and youth. The chapter also provides a detailed synthesis of existing research on character education from a wide range of disciplines and practitioner contexts. Citizenship formations have changed over time and are shaped by geography, connected to wider ideas of identity and belonging. The chapter considers character education and how key definitions and understandings of this concept differ from citizenship education.
