Transforming Education

Part I. Transformation 1: Education Through Design

1. Modern Learning Environments: Embodiment of a Disjunctive Encounter
Alastair Wells, Mark Jackson, Leon Benade

2. Spatialised Practices in ILEs: Pedagogical Transformations and Learner Agency
Jennifer Charteris, Dianne Smardon, Angela Page

3. Reimagining and Reshaping Spaces of Learning: Constituting Innovative and Creative Lifelong Learners
Leon Benade, Eva Bertelsen, Lyn Lewis

4. Innovative Learning Environments as Complex Adaptive Systems: Enabling Middle Years’ Education
Benjamin Cleveland

5. Trialling Innovation: Studying the Philosophical and Conceptual Rationales of Demonstration Schools in Universities
Garth Stahl, Stephen Dobson, Stephen Redillas

Part II. Transformation 2: The Governmentality of Education

6. Selling New Learning Spaces: Flexibly Anything for the Twenty-First Century
Adam Wood

7. MLE as Non-place
Andrew Thompson

8. From Progressivism to Instrumentalism: Innovative Learning Environments According to New Zealand’s Ministry of Education
Daniel Couch

9. An Art of Orientation: The Possibilities of Learning Spaces
Sean Sturm

10. Questions Concerning Innovative Learning Environments: Intersections in Disciplined Resistance
Stuart Deerness, Andrew Gibbons, Mary-Jo Gilligan, Gregory Breen, Andrew Denton, Richard Heraud

Part III. Transformation 3: Global Perspectives on Education

11. Crossing or Erasing Territorial Borders: Towards Openness Within the School Space
Lilija Duobliene

12. Student-Centred Classroom Environments in Upper Secondary School: Students’ Ideas About Good Spaces for Learning Versus Actual Arrangements
Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir

13. Virtual Reality: Its Transformative Potential
Irina Kuznetcova, Michael Glassman

14. Coup D’etat in the Panopticon: Social Networking in Education
Diana O. Koroleva, Ashley Simpson

15. Transferring Pedagogical Spaces: Schoolyards as Learning Environments in the Perspective of Students and Teachers
Ulrike Stadler-Altmann, Peter Hilger

Keywords: Education, Technology and Digital Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Educational Philosophy, Curriculum Studies, Educational Technology