Mobilities, Equity, and the Higher Education Curriculum

• In Event: Critical Curriculum Issues in Higher Education: Access and Teacher Preparation

Abstract

This study examines how students at a rural serving HSI in a southwest U.S. city enact their daily mobilities across physical and virtual educational environments. Framed by Mobile Interface Theory, the project enabled students to document spatial and social challenges using smartphones, producing multimedia narratives that highlighted issues of equity, access, safety, and institutional design. Themes included the gendered implications of parking access, emotional and physical fatigue from commutes, and disconnection between online and campus systems. Findings support the integration of mobilities into curriculum and research design. This mobilities research project supports centering the student experience in educational planning and to foreground mobilities as an essential component of inclusive institutional design.

Author

• S. Otto Khera, New Mexico State University