Spatialized Pedagogies, Innovative Learning Environments, and School Redesign: Researchers, Teachers, and Students Coproducing Knowledge

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session explores how learning environments are socially constituted, and in turn constitute, ‘innovative’ pedagogical practices that can improve student learning. It considers through cross-national case studies in Australia, the UK and Canada, arts-based approaches to pedagogical reform in innovative learning environments (ILE) , while questioning the nature of, and conditions (organizational and policy environments) for, ‘innovation’. The symposium introduces a conceptual framework around redesign which better encapsulates the importance of purpose, process and pedagogical preparation of teachers and students for whole school change, with particular attention paid to the interaction of spatiality, temporality and connectivity. Finally, it illustrates how visual methodologies and spatialized pedagogies can engage researchers, teachers and students in the co-production of useful knowledge.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Section 5: Learning Environments

Chair

• Jillian Anne Blackmore, Professor, Deakin University

Papers

• Redesigning Pedagogies and Learning Spaces - Deb Bateman, Deakin University; Jillian Anne Blackmore, Professor, Deakin University; Joanne O'Mara, Deakin University

• Participatory Redesign: Visual Methodologies and Student Voice - Joanne O'Mara, Deakin University; Jillian Anne Blackmore, Professor, Deakin University; Deb Bateman, Deakin University

• Translating New Pedagogical Knowledges Into School Redesign: Making “Thinking Outside the Box” a Practical Reality - Patricia Lorna Thomson, University of Nottingham

• Shifting Spaces and Pedagogical Maneuvers: Teacher Experiences of Space and Place - Linda Laidlaw, University of Alberta; Lee Makovichuk, Child Study Centre; Joanne O'Mara, Deakin University

Discussant

• Leslie Santee Siskin, New York University