
Innovative Environments as Agents of Teaching and Learning
Alastair Wells(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 25. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-620-0-32711-6 (ISBN)
Description
To critically engage with this topic, this book brings into discussion architects who design facilities, and educationalists and students who occupy them. Developing an awareness of the experiences of those who occupy the spaces is fundamental to understanding individual and group encounters, but emphasis must also be positioned on the nature of space itself as space is socially constructed and produced through the actions of its participants. By addressing the issue of spatial ontology, a discourse can be generated that will help to create an enhanced understanding of this relational space of design and occupancy. New schools have been designed, built and occupied that reflect open flexible spaces in contrast to the tightly ordered typology of traditional cellular classrooms. It appears that design communities are driving this environmental change while those in educational fields have been more reactive than active as change agents. This points to a misalignment between the discursive spaces of ILEs that address curriculum change and pedagogy, and the non-discursive spaces of ILE, with their design-driven agenda.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-620-0-32711-6 (9786200327116)
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Alastair Wells has been a significant contributor in the fields of education, design and engineering. He completed his PhD at Auckland University of Technology after having spent three years as Director of Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti in Christchurch and spending twelve years as a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland.