This dissertation examines the transitional stage between lower and upper secondary education among 15–16-year-old young people in northern Finland. To address the complexity of the spatial dynamics and tensions at play, this study approaches youth educational paths as spaces of education. Drawing on relational theories of space and particularly the work of Doreen Massey, it contributes to rethinking spaces of education via a multi-sited and multi-scalar approach. The study underlines that youth educational paths are not merely linear transitions from one educational stage to another but involve complex and dynamic spatialities and spatial inequalities at the nexus of policy, everyday life, and emotion.
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