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An Interview with Jill Blackmore on space, learning, feminism and the politics of education

Professor Jill Blackmore discusses learning spaces, teachers’ work, feminism and the complexity of education.

Deakin University, Feminism, Jill Blackmore, learning spaces, LEEP, OECD, Teachers
An image from Ngram Viewer showing relative trends in the words 'education' and 'learning' between 1800 and 2008

The Changing Vocabulary of Education and its Spaces

A post exploring changes in the words used to talk about education e.g. the shift from “classroom” to “learning space”.

architecture and language, classrooms, learning spaces, new language of learning
Detail of Herman Hertzberger's 2010 Scuola Petrocelli, La Romanina, Rome.

Italy’s ‘Competition of Ideas’ for a New School-Building Programme

Italy’s “Competition of Ideas” for Innovative Schools could stimulate architectural & educational debate.

La Buona Scuola, learning spaces, school design

Making Spaces, Forgetting Politics

Walls* are breaks (Vesely, 2013). They break into established categories of meaning and space and make new ones. They do … More

classifying by space, classrooms, learning spaces, school space, spaces and politics

What are schools for? An interview with Gert Biesta on the learnification of school buildings and education.

Gert Biesta on school architecture and democracy, and learnification – a reductive reappraisal of education as learning.

architecture and language, classrooms, democracy, Gert Biesta, learnification, learning spaces

Interview with Dr Ji Yu

Dr Ji Yu, studied for her doctorate in the Education Faculty of the University of Cambridge, investigating the impact of … More

Carn, Chinese education, Chinese students, Dr Catherine Burke, learning spaces, primary school design, Professor Jan Vermunt, University of Cambridge

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