Other Evaluating the pedagogical effectiveness of learning spaces Cleveland, B | Soccio, P. (2015) This paper describes the development and ongoing use of the School Spaces Evaluation Instrument (SSEI): an evaluation tool developed to gather information about how effectively school architecture supports teaching and learning. In 2009, the Australian Federal Government pledged $16.2 billion towards the Building the Education Revolution (BER). Over the following ...
Smart Green Schools Sustainability vs. pedagogy: synergies and tensions to be resolved in the design of learning environments Cleveland, B | Soccio, P | Hes, D. (2015) Learning environments in schools are purpose-built spaces. They are designed to be places of learning and are inclusive of the building structure, the furniture, fixtures, incorporated technology and learning resources. In the 21st century, it has become common practice for the design of new learning environments to be driven by ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Are your school interiors giving you a pedagogical edge? Frith, K. (2015) This paper examines what inflence the interior design of primary school learning environments has on creating pedagogical advantage. Contemporary Australian education culture is characterised by a shift away from a teacher-centred transmission of information towards child-centred co-construction of knowledge, skills and understanding (Burke, 2013; Department of Education and Early Childhood ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Beyond the bounded notion of the classroom: A theoretical orientation for evaluating the geographies of New Generation Learning Environments Healy, S | Grant, G | Villafranca, E | Yang, P. (2015) Leander, Phillips and Taylor’s (2010) critique of the bounded notion of the classroom is our point of departure for investigating how learning contained within a static conceptual space limits understandings of the geographies of learning. We reframe the traditional perceptions of the classroom as a container to make explicit the ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Terrains 2015 Mapping learning environment evaluation across the design and education landscape: Towards the evidence-based design of education facilities Imms, W | Cleveland, B | Mitcheltree, H. (2015) Terrains, as its name suggested, was a cartographic examination of learning environment evaluation. It invited all higher-degree students working in learning environments to assemble and present a short synopsis of their research. Through the careful sequencing of papers, and input after each paper by expert interlocoteurs, Terrains explored how this ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Embedded intervention programs can make a difference to CIM Love, P. (2015) Australian and International research has documented the decline in community involvement and connectedness over recent decades. Associated with this decline is the decline in children’s independence, particularly in the extent to which children are allowed to explore the external environment. Children’s Independent Mobility (CIM) is a measure of the level ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Mediating contemporary learning through spatial change: An account of 'library-as-experimental-space' Morrison, C. (2015) Changing a school from traditional to contemporary learning is challenging. This paper presents anempirically researched account of how one primary school, struggling to bring about a more contemporary learning environment, ‘reimagined the geography of learning’ (Mulcahy, 2015) through redesigning the library as an experimental learning space. Altering the image of ...
Other Learning spaces and pedagogic change: Envisioned, enacted and experienced Mulcahy, M | Cleveland, B | Aberton, H. (2015) Building on work in how spaces of learning can contribute to the broader policy agenda of achieving pedagogic change, this article takes as its context the Building the Education Revolution infrastructure programme in Australia. Deploying a sociomaterial approach to researching learning spaces and pedagogic change and drawing on data from ...
Other Flipped teaching: finding room for interdisciplinary content and peer learning Newton, C | Cameron, R | De Albornoz, A. (2015) Three years ago we introduced flipped teaching strategies to large cohorts of first year university students learning about construction. Paradoxically, our aim in providing online content was to improve and expand the on-campus experience. By transferring lecture content online we were able to extend our two-hour face-to-face tutorials to three ...
Smart Green Schools The other half of the picture: post-occupancy evaluation for alignment of space and pedagogy Newton, C | Cleveland, B. (2015) Prefabricated relocatable learning environments form an important component of school infrastructure in Australia but their light-weight construction means they often require air-conditioning for a comfortable indoor environment quality (IEQ). The ‘envi Sustainable Education Spaces’ were recently constructed by the Department of Education and Technology (DET) in Victoria to showcase a ...