Learning spaces : creating opportunities for knowledge creation in academic life / Maggi Savin-Baden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savin-Baden, Maggi, 1960-

Contributor:

Society for Research into Higher Education.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Personal space.

College buildings.

Physical Description:

167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England ; New York : McGraw Hill/Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2008.

Summary:

The ability to have or to find space in academic life seems to be increasingly difficult since we seem to be consumed by teaching and bidding, overwhelmed by emails and underwhelmed by long arduous meetings. This book explores the concept of learning spaces, the idea that there are diverse forms of spaces within the life and life world of the academic where opportunities to reflect and critique their own unique learning position occur.

Learning Spaces sets out to challenge the notion that academic thinking cannot take place in cramped, busy working spaces, and argues instead for a need to recognise and promote new opportunities for learning spaces to emerge in academic life. The book examines the ideas that: Learning spaces are increasingly absent in academic life, The creation and re-creation of learning spaces is vital for the survival of the academic community, The absence of learning spaces is resulting in increasing dissolution and fragmentation of academic identities, Learning spaces need to be valued and possibly redefined in order to regain and maintain the intellectual health of academe.

In offering possibilities for creative learning spaces, this innovative book provides key reading for those interested in the future of universities including educational developers, researchers, managers and policy makers.

Contents:

Part 1 Re-viewing the Landscape 5

1 Forms of Learning Spaces 7

2 Creating Learning Spaces 22

Part 2 Engaging Possibilities 35

3 Writing Spaces 37

4 Dialogic Spaces 51

5 Reflective Spaces 66

6 Digital Spaces 81

7 Troublesome Spaces 95

Part 3 Transforming locations 113

8 Boundary Spaces 115

9 Spatial Identities 128

10 Re-positioning Learning Spaces 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-164) and index.

ISBN:

0335222315

9780335222315

0335222307

9780335222308

OCLC:

171549232