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Changing spaces of education : new perspectives on the nature of learning / edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

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New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Brooks, Rachel, 1971-, Fuller, Alison, 1957-, and Waters, Johanna L. (Johanna Lesley), 1976-

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Contents
Changing spaces of education: an introduction / Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller and Johanna Waters -- Transnational spaces, international students: emergent perspectives on educational mobilities / Johanna Waters and Rachel Brooks -- Constructing transnational higher education spaces: international branch campuses developments in the United Arab Emirates / Kate Geddie -- Third culture kids: the global nomads of transnational spaces of learning / Mary Hayden -- Autonomy in the global era: Euro-regionalism and new policy spaces in education / Laura C. Engel -- "You expect school to be the happiest times of their lives, but it's not": new policy spaces and the unattainable pursuit of equity / Molly Warrington -- School building redesign: everyday spaces, transformational policy discourses / John Horton and Peter Kraft -- New places of work, new spaces of learning / Alan Felstead and Nick Jewson -- Bridging institutional divides: linking education, careers and work in 'organizational space' and 'skill space' dominated employment systems / Gunter Hefler and Jorg Markowitsch -- The spatial dimensions of workplace learning: acquiring literacy and numeracy skills within the worksplace / Natasha Kersh, Edmund Waite and Karen Evans -- (Im)mobilities and (dis)locating practices in cyber education / Richard Edwards -- Learning in an open world / Gráinne Conole -- Cyber-spatial mediations and educational mobilities: international students and the internet / Francis Collins -- Afterword: From changing spaces of education to changing spaces of learning / Alison Fuller, Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters.
Summary
"In today's modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an understanding of the plurality of spaces (such as homes, workplaces, international space and cyberspace) in which learning can take place. The spaces of policy making with respect to education are also being transformed, away from traditional centres of policy formation towards the incorporation of a wider range of actors and sites. These changes coincide with a more general interest in space and spatial theory across the social sciences, where notions of simultaneity and diversity replace more modernist conceptions of linear progress and development through time. This volume proffers a unique perspective on the transformation of education in the 21st century, by bringing together leading researchers in education, sociology and geography to address directly questions of space in relation to education and learning. This collection of essays: - examines the changing and diverse spaces and concepts of education (occurring simultaneously at different scales and in different parts of the world) - explores where education and learning take place - discusses how spaces of education vary at different stages (compulsory schooling, tertiary and higher education, adult education and workplace learning) - inspects the ways in which the meanings attached to education and learning change in different national and regional contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9780415672214 (hardback)
041567221X (hardback)
9780415672221 (paperback)
0415672228 (paperback)
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