Spaces of Teaching and Learning: Integrating Perspectives on Research and Practice

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This integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of teaching and learning uses ‘learning space’ to place educational practice in context. It considers the complex relationships involved in the design, management and use of contemporary learning spaces. It sheds light on some of the problems of connecting the characteristics of spaces to the practices and outcomes of teaching and learning. The contributions show how research into learning spaces can inform broader educational practices and how the practices of teaching, learning and design can inform research. The selection of chapters demonstrates the value of gathering together multiple sources of evidence, viewed through different epistemological lenses in order to push the field forward in a timely fashion. The book provides both a broad review of current practices as well as a deep-dive into particular educational and epistemological challenges that the various approaches adopted entail. Contrasts and commonalities between the different approaches emphasise the importance of developing a broad, robust evidence-base for practice in context. This is the inaugural book in the series Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Spaces of Teaching and Learning: An Orientation (Robert A. Ellis, Peter Goodyear, Alexi Marmot)....Pages 1-11 Assembling Spaces of Learning ‘In’ Museums and Schools: A Practice-Based Sociomaterial Perspective (Dianne Mulcahy)....Pages 13-29 Space, Place and University Society: Insights from Common-Pool Resource Theory (Paul Temple)....Pages 31-45 Design as Learning, Learning as Design (Richard F. Elmore)....Pages 47-62 Towards a Social-Semiotic Topography of University Learning Spaces: Tools to Connect Use, Users and Meanings (Louise J. Ravelli)....Pages 63-80 The Material Correspondence of Learning (Pippa Yeoman)....Pages 81-103 Analysing the Learning Commons in the Digital Age (W. Michael Johnson, Michael John Khoo)....Pages 105-128 Measuring Engagement in the University Student Experience of Learning in Blended Environments (Robert A. Ellis, Feifei Han, Abelardo Pardo)....Pages 129-152 Collaborative Re-design: Working with School Communities to Understand and Improve Their Learning Environments (Pamela Woolner)....Pages 153-172 Old Wine in New Bottle? How Technologies Are Being Used in an Elementary School in Singapore (Lee Yong Tay, Shanthi Suraj Nair, Cher Ping Lim)....Pages 173-194 The Missing Link: Aligning Blended Curricula with Physical Learning Spaces in Health Interprofessional Education (Jonas Nordquist, Kenn Fisher)....Pages 195-220 Learning Spaces Research: Framing Actionable Knowledge (Peter Goodyear, Robert A. Ellis, Alexi Marmot)....Pages 221-238 Back Matter ....Pages 239-243