International Handbook of Research on Learning Environments
Description
The International Handbook of Research on Learning Environments will bring together diverse views from around the world and provide a comprehensive overview, beginning with conceptions of learning environments through to the impact of learning environments on a range of teacher and student variables. Additionally, the Handbook will contribute to the debates in the field as well as in the media, including but not limited to the impact of more contemporary design features of learning environments, the call for explicit teaching, the impact on classroom management, students' and teachers' wellbeing. For established researchers and practitioners and those new to the field, this Handbook will provide both a one-stop-shop and a launching pad for new explorations and discussions on learning environments.
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Persons
Marian Mahat is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education in the University of Melbourne, Australia. She leads a sustained and impactful research on learning environments, with an emphasis on teachers' spatial competency, co-designing physical and pedagogical learning environments, teacher-led inquiry, and professional development of teachers across different educational and learning environment contexts. Working across multiple fields of inquiry, utilizing innovative quantitative and qualitative methodologies and interdisciplinary collaboration with other universities, industry and schools, she has authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports, and is a recipient or co-recipient of over $AUD2.3M in external research funding and contracts. Marian is an award-winning researcher, having been awarded the Mid-Career Research Excellence Award (2024), Early Career Research Excellence Award (2019) and Research Partnership Excellence Award (2018). Marian leads a series of micro-credentials on Leading Change in Learning Environments at the University of Melbourne, is the series editor of 'Linking Theory and Practice in Learning Environments' published by Emerald, and is Associate Editor of the Learning Environments Research Journal .
Jill Aldridge is a Professor at the School of Education in Curtin University, Western Australia. Jill's research, drawn out of the field of learning environment, involves the use of data (stakeholder perceptions), as part of a participatory action research process, to bring about improvement in student outcomes at the classroom (the focus of earlier research), school (in more recent research) and system (current research) levels, including cross-cultural applications. Throughout her academic career, Jill has been heavily involved in programmatic, impactful research that has included both externally funded (totalling more than $2.3 MIL) and contracted (totalling over $300,000) research, and extensive collaboration with her HDR students. A large part of Jill's work has involved the translation of academic research into practice to bridge the stereotypical "ivory tower" gap between researchers and practitioners. Jill recognises the practical value and application of the field of psychosocial learning environments to practitioners and although use of the research remains emergent, it resonates with her personal values and priorities. Jill has worked to make her research accessible to external stakeholders through professional learning, one-to-one mentoring with school leadership, extended blog posts and books published by Sense Publishers that are useful for school leadership teams and academics. In total, she has over 170 publications, including books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles; her work has been cited over 4000 times in the last five years. Jill is Co-Editor In Chief of the Learning Environments Research Journal .
Content
A holistic approach to learning environments.- Introduction to physical learning environment: Complex Adaptive Assemblages.- Global Lessons in School Design: Insights from OECD Work on Physical Learning Environments.- Connecting to Country in a post-colonial biophilic world - the culturally responsive school.- Incidental transformations: creative practices and changing learning environments.- Designing for Remote Locations.- Cool Schools: Designing Heat-Resilient Schoolyards for Health and Learning.- Transforming educational spaces through architectural literacy.- The inclusive design of learning spaces for students with disability and neurodiversity.- Considering teachers' and students' perceptions in learning environment design.