School Spaces for Student Wellbeing and Learning: Insights from Research and Practice

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This book introduces a new wellbeing dimension to the theory and practice of learning space design for early childhood and school contexts. It highlights vital, yet generally overlooked relationships between the learning environment and student learning and wellbeing, and reveals the potential of participatory, values-based design approaches to create learning spaces that respond to contemporary learners’ needs. Focusing on three main themes it explores conceptual understandings of learning spaces and wellbeing; students’ lived experience and needs of learning spaces; and the development of a new theory and its practical application to the design of learning spaces that enhance student wellbeing. It examines these complex and interwoven topics through various theoretical lenses and provides an extensive, current literature review that connects learning environment design and learner wellbeing in a wide range of educational settings from early years to secondary school. Offering transferable approaches and a new theoretical model of wellbeing as flourishing to support the design of innovative learning environments, this book is of interest to researchers, tertiary educators and students in the education and design fields, as well as school administrators and facility managers, teachers, architects and designers. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-2 Towards a Spatiality of Wellbeing (Jill Franz)....Pages 3-19 Sociomaterial Dimensions of Early Literacy Learning Spaces: Moving Through Classrooms with Teacher and Children (Lisa Kervin, Barbara Comber, Aspa Baroutsis)....Pages 21-38 Promoting Children’s Wellbeing and Values Learning in Risky Learning Spaces (Lyndal O’Gorman)....Pages 39-54 School Design and Wellbeing: Spatial and Literary Meeting Points (Kerry Mallan)....Pages 55-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-76 Imaginings and Representations of High School Learning Spaces: Year 6 Student Experiences (Kylie Andrews, Jill Willis)....Pages 77-95 High School Spaces and Student Transitioning: Designing for Student Wellbeing (Hilary Hughes, Jill Franz, Jill Willis, Derek Bland, Annie Rolfe)....Pages 97-119 Students Reimagining School Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Wellbeing (Jill Willis, Hilary Hughes, Derek Bland)....Pages 121-137 Creating Learning Spaces that Promote Wellbeing, Participation and Engagement: Implications for Students on the Autism Spectrum (Beth Saggers, Jill Ashburner)....Pages 139-156 Enhancing Wellbeing Through Broadening the Primary Curriculum in the UK with Open Futures (Pamela Woolner, Lucy Tiplady)....Pages 157-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-178 Fostering Educator Participation in Learning Space Designing: Insights from a Master of Education Unit of Study (Hilary Hughes, Raylee Elliott Burns)....Pages 179-197 Participatory Principles in Practice: Designing Learning Spaces that Promote Wellbeing for Young Adolescents During the Transition to Secondary School (Christopher Nastrom-Smith, Hilary Hughes)....Pages 199-219 Creating a Sensory Garden for Early Years Learners: Participatory Designing for Student Wellbeing (Adeline Kucks, Hilary Hughes)....Pages 221-238 Creating the Third Teacher Through Participatory Learning Environment Design: Reggio Emilia Principles Support Student Wellbeing (Vanessa Miller)....Pages 239-258 Front Matter ....Pages 259-259 Designing ‘Space’ for Student Wellbeing as Flourishing (Jill Franz)....Pages 261-279 Back Matter ....Pages 281-287