Transforming Education: Design & Governance in Global Contexts

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This book is an edited collection grouped into three key thematic areas. Its authors are researchers and theoretical scholars in the fields of education curriculum, education technology, education philosophy, and design for education. They present primary research and theoretical considerations, descriptive accounts and philosophical reflections to provide readers with a broad sweep of the ‘state of play’ in thinking about the place and space of learning. Transforming Education distils, from a panoply of critical arenas, an understanding of the forces currently at play in redefining curriculum agendas for education – from primary to post-secondary. It analyses the major ways in which the built environment of education is transforming, in response to various globalised policy drivers and new education delivery technologies. Its authors critique the ways education performs a governance function over the users and occupants of space, be it physical or virtual. For readers who may be seriously engaging with the concept of spatiality in relation to education for the first time, this book provides the opportunity to develop a clear understanding of a wide scope of theory, practice and critique in relation to learning environments. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Modern Learning Environments: Embodiment of a Disjunctive Encounter (Alastair Wells, Mark Jackson, Leon Benade)....Pages 3-17 Spatialised Practices in ILEs: Pedagogical Transformations and Learner Agency (Jennifer Charteris, Dianne Smardon, Angela Page)....Pages 19-31 Reimagining and Reshaping Spaces of Learning: Constituting Innovative and Creative Lifelong Learners (Leon Benade, Eva Bertelsen, Lyn Lewis)....Pages 33-54 Innovative Learning Environments as Complex Adaptive Systems: Enabling Middle Years’ Education (Benjamin Cleveland)....Pages 55-78 Trialling Innovation: Studying the Philosophical and Conceptual Rationales of Demonstration Schools in Universities (Garth Stahl, Stephen Dobson, Stephen Redillas)....Pages 79-92 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 Selling New Learning Spaces: Flexibly Anything for the Twenty-First Century (Adam Wood)....Pages 95-106 MLE as Non-place (Andrew Thompson)....Pages 107-119 From Progressivism to Instrumentalism: Innovative Learning Environments According to New Zealand’s Ministry of Education (Daniel Couch)....Pages 121-133 An Art of Orientation: The Possibilities of Learning Spaces (Sean Sturm)....Pages 135-148 Questions Concerning Innovative Learning Environments: Intersections in Disciplined Resistance (Stuart Deerness, Andrew Gibbons, Mary-Jo Gilligan, Gregory Breen, Andrew Denton, Richard Heraud)....Pages 149-166 Front Matter ....Pages 167-167 Crossing or Erasing Territorial Borders: Towards Openness Within the School Space (Lilija Duobliene)....Pages 169-181 Student-Centred Classroom Environments in Upper Secondary School: Students’ Ideas About Good Spaces for Learning Versus Actual Arrangements (Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir)....Pages 183-197 Virtual Reality: Its Transformative Potential (Irina Kuznetcova, Michael Glassman)....Pages 199-211 Coup D’etat in the Panopticon: Social Networking in Education (Diana O. Koroleva, Ashley Simpson)....Pages 213-225 Transferring Pedagogical Spaces: Schoolyards as Learning Environments in the Perspective of Students and Teachers (Ulrike Stadler-Altmann, Peter Hilger)....Pages 227-244