Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments: A Global Perspective

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Wesley Imms, Thomas Kvan
Springer Nature, Nov 30, 2020 - Education - 334 pages

This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes.

The book reports on emerging research in learning environments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments. It offers a significant evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field by designers, architects, educators and policy makers. It presents twenty-five cutting-edge projects from researchers in fifteen countries. Thanks to the book’s comprehensive international perspective, which combines theory and practice in a single publication, readers will gain a wealth of new insights.


 

Contents

Space Are Places in Which We Learn
1
Cocreating Innovative Learning Environments LEaRNs Decade of Discovery
9
Change and Risk
24
Introduction to Part I Change and Risk
25
Creating a Space for Innovative Learning The Importance of Engaging the Users in the Design Process
33
The Enactment of Teacher Collaboration in Innovative Learning Environments A Case Study of Spatial and Pedagogical Structuration
47
School Change Emerging Findings of How to Achieve the Buzz
61
Increasing Teacher Engagement in Innovative Learning Environments Understanding the Effects of Perceptions of Risk
73
What About Interaction Geography to Evaluate Physical Learning Spaces?
166
Measurement
180
Introduction to Part III Measurement
181
What Does Teaching and Learning Look like in a Variety of Classroom Spatial Environments?
187
Design with KnowledgeLight in Learning Environments
203
Exploring the Relationships Between Learning Space and Student Learning in Higher Education A Comparative Case Study in China
214
The Creative Learning Spiral Designing Environments for Flaring and Focusing
227
Teacher Practices
243

Pedarchitecture Which Learning Environments for the Personalisation of Teaching and Learning? An Educational Architecture for the Schools of the...
84
Using Fällmans Interaction Design Research Triangle as a Methodological Tool for Research About Reading Spaces in Schools
109
Inhabiting
123
Introduction to Part II Inhabiting
124
The Mobility of People Not Furniture Leads to Collaboration
129
The Gadfly A Collaborative Approach to Doing Data Differently
139
Innovative Learning Environments Are They Inclusive? Why Evaluating the Speaking and Acoustic Potential of the Space Matters
151
Introduction to Part IV Teacher Practices
244
Envisaging Teacher Spatial Competency Through the Lenses of Situated Cognition and Personal Imagination to Reposition It as a Professional Classr...
249
The Spirit of WE in the Learning Environment WE LEaRNA Space for Students and Teachers to Become
277
Addressing the SocioSpatial Challenges of Innovative Learning Environments for Practicum Harmonics for Transitional Times
291
Hack the School A Creative Toolkit to Transform School Spaces
304
Where to Now? Fourteen Characteristics of Teachers Transition into Innovative Learning Environments
317
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Wesley Imms is an Associate Professor of Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, co-director of the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN), and director of LEaRN@MGSE. In these roles he teaches in Master’s and Doctoral programs on subjects bridging curriculum and learning environments, and conducts research projects with partners ranging from individual schools to entire education systems. He has authored approximately 90 scholarly papers and reports on learning environment use and evaluation. He has secured extensive external funding for research including the Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) project; he is also Chief Investigator for the innovative Plans to Pedagogy (P2P) project, which focuses on building teachers’ spatial competency skills in schools across Australia and New Zealand.

Thomas Kvan is recognised for his pioneering work in design, digital environments and design management and has held senior leadership roles in several universities as Dean and Pro Vice Chancellor. He was the founding co-Director of LEaRN (the Learning Environments Applied Research Network) delivering multidisciplinary research on learning and architecture, and was founding Director of AURIN (the Australian Urban Research Information Network) that developed a national digital infrastructure, both networks hosted at the University of Melbourne. He has published over 180 publications in academic, professional and popular channels. He is currently founding Dean of the School of Design at the South University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in China.