Flexibility and Predictability: Change, Furniture Arrangements and Pedagogical Communication

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  • Author(s): Kivelä, Mikael
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Journal of Learning Spaces. 2023 12(1):33-46.
  • Publication Date:
    2023
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402. Tel: 336-334-5880; Fax: 336-334-5399; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      14
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
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    • ISSN:
      2158-6195
    • Abstract:
      Non-traditional learning spaces have been a trending topic and investment opportunity during the last decade. Ostensibly their novel material settings promote active and flexible learning. This article traces the furniture layouts utilized in curricular teaching during three semesters across the first five years of use of an 80-seat non-traditional learning space in University of Helsinki, Finland. We examine space and pedagogical communication as a deleuzoguattarian arrangement; we present a tension between social, organic, and physiochemical predictability and a limited, yet observable drive to change furniture layouts to promote particular kinds of pedagogical communication in curricular teaching.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2023
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1400284