Innovative Learning Environments: Concepts and Theories for Educational Spaces

This book contains an Open Access Chapter. Innovative Learning Environments offers a comprehensive conceptual and theoretical toolkit to support thorough investigations of transformative, innovative, and non-traditional learning spaces in schools. This book contains an Open Access Chapter. Innovative Learning Environments offers a comprehensive conceptual and theoretical toolkit to support thorough investigations of transformative, innovative, and non-traditional learning spaces in schools. In these spaces, innovative design and pedagogy are at the nexus of new school constructions and the redevelopment of existing schools. Addressing a gap in existing research, contributions from leading scholars in Learning Environments research present clear entries elucidating concepts and theories that are relevant to the study of Innovative Learning Environments. Readers will find these entries valuable for practical application as they illustrate how these concepts and theories enhance practice within non-traditional schooling spaces. This concise yet comprehensive volume is invaluable for both newcomers and experienced practitioners, scholars, or designers in the field of Innovative Learning Environments. By focusing on pedagogy and design, Innovative Learning Environments elucidates the origins and purposes of the spatial turn and its impact on learning.