Video Intersectoral policy management with a right based approach. Access to education and mobility ? Chapter: young people

GUTIERREZ, ANDREA

Chapultepec

Conferencia; International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility; 2016

Today mobility is understood as a spatial practice and, in the context of culture and way of life, humans? behaviour, perceptions, experiences and habits of movement are subject of study. From this view, the conditions, constrains as well as facilitators of motion are observed. But the analysis of mobility mostly ends up when individual arrives at the places they go. The activities that people do there are not included in the analysis as if they were not related to mobility. This limit or boundary (between mobility and what people do) is very important to be overcome in order to understand accessibility.Mobility practice is not separated from the activity or purpose of that practice. Everyone travels for something or to do something. Health, work, education, leisure are motifs to move which have their own features, singularities, way of working that need further research. But this study needs to be related to mobility practice because they are part of it. This video aims to highlight how mobility practice and activities are parts of a same process.It contains a selection of interviews to students, teachers and principals of secondary public schools of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires. The interviews are part of a larger research on mobility and access to education. They show the factors involved in their mobility practices, how they operate, and how they work out in the journeys ?both those made and no made.The video has two parts. The first shows factors such as the conditions of street and sidewalks, public lighting, security, number of schools, quantity and quality of public transport services. The second one focuses on how enrolment, paperwork and other bureaucratic stuffs that people have to do in order to access to public education service. It also focuses on the work conditions of school system. The ?no journeys?, useless and unnecessary journeys, shows that they way in which the school system works out shape the practice of mobility. The video (with English subtitles) lasts 24 minutes. It aims to reach a wide audience but also particularly to encourage those people involved in education to consider the importance of mobility.