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Advancing Learning Environment
Design and Spatialised Pedagogic
Practice Through Evaluation
Dr Benjamin Cleveland
School Planning, Design & Construction Conference, Sydney
25 October, 2016
Evidence-based design in education has suffered from – well – a lack of evidence!
Learning Environment Evaluation
“Without a feedback loop, every building is, to some extent, a prototype – spaces and systems put together in new ways, with potentially unpredictable outcomes”
(Zimmerman & Martin, 2001, p. 169)
Learning Environment Evaluation
The field of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) has overlooked the evaluation of learning spaces for pedagogical effectiveness.
Learning Environment Evaluation
Learning Environment Evaluation
PedagogyLearning
environment
Resources/ICT
Furniture
Interior design
Building structure
Behaviours
Activities
Practices
Philosophy
No 42 Architects with Engaging Spaces– Catholic College Wodonga
Learning Environment Evaluation
Learning Environment Evaluation
No 42 Architects with Engaging Spaces– Catholic College Wodonga
Learning Environment Evaluation
No 42 Architects with Engaging Spaces– Catholic College Wodonga
Behaviour, not space, is enclosed by architecture …
Bechtel, R. B. (1977). Enclosing behaviour (Vol. 31). Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchison & Ross, Inc.
Learning Environment Evaluation
‘Space is a product of relations-between’
Doreen Massey (2005)
Learning Environment Evaluation
User experience of space … “what we are
concerned with here is not texts (blue prints) but texture”.
Henri Lefebvre (1991, p. 138).
Learning Environment Evaluation
More studies are required to develop rigorous methodologies and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of learning spaces in supporting desired teaching and learning practices, activities and behaviours.
Learning Environment Evaluation
Cleveland , B. and Fisher, K. (2014): The evaluation of physical learning environments: A critical review of the literature. Learning Environments Research, 17:1–28.
Image: Hayball
www.E21LE.com
Learning Environment Evaluation
An interdisciplinary approach is needed!
Learning Environment Evaluation
Connections between the
domains of education,
architecture, critical human
geography, and
environmental psychology
Theories of evaluation
Pragmatics associated with
setting-up, conducting and
reporting evaluations
Learning Environment Evaluation
Architectural theory
Environmental psychology
Critical human geography
Educational theory
The E21LE project is aiming to provide a range of evaluative strategies and tools that can be used by schools and governing agencies to influence decisions about …
1. The types of learning spaces that should be built or refurbished.
2. How school communities can get the most out of the spaces they already have through professional capacity building, aiding the development of spatially responsive pedagogies.
Learning Environment Evaluation
Towards evaluating the effectiveness of ‘units of the environment’ as pedagogical settings:
Gislason’s (2010) model for school design research addresses connections between the physical and social components of units of the environment … and is suggested as a model for learning environment evaluation.
Ecology –building design, technology and other material
elements
Organization –teaching,
scheduling and curriculum
Student milieu –learning and motivation,
social climate
Staff culture –assumptions, values, and patterns of
thought and behavior
Learning Environment Evaluation
Learning Environment Evaluation
Imms, W., Cleveland, B. and Fisher, K. (2016) (Eds.). Evaluating learning environments: Snapshots of emerging issues, methods and knowledge. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
www.E21LE.com
LEaRN Evaluations
Module 1
Design Process Evaluation
(Future Module )
Module 2
Technical Performance/IEQ Evaluation
Module 3
Alignment of Pedagogy &
Learning Environments
The LEaRN Evaluation Tools address the shortcomings of existing school learning environment Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) tools. Three modules can be used to evaluate general-purpose teaching and learning spaces in primary and secondary schools.
Towards Effective Learning Environment in Catholic Schools
Overview
Towards Effective Learning Environment in Catholic Schools
Learning environment typologies
Learning Environment Typologies: Dovey, K., & Fisher, K. 2014. Designing for adaption: the school as socio-spatial assemblage. The Journal of Architecture 19(1), 43-63
Operable wallsSolid walls
TRADITIONALCLASSROOMS
OPEN PLAN
1. Online Survey
2. ObservationalWalkthrough
(1 hour)
3. Focus groupDiscussion
(1 hour)
50-60minutes
Completedas part of
observationalwalkthrough
25-30minutes
15-20minutes
2 teachers
2-10 teachers
Stages of fieldwork & participation
TEACHERS STUDENTEXPERTPRINCIPAL
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Qualities of the leaning environment
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Innovative Learning Environments + Teacher Change will run in six Australian states and New Zealand from 2016-2019 – one of the largest ever Australian Research Council Linkage Grants for Education
Chief Investigator’s:
A/Prof Wesley Imms
Prof John Hattie
Prof David Clarke
Prof Tom Kvan
A/Prof Clare Newton
A/Prof Kenn Fisher
Dr Benjamin Cleveland
ILETC VIDEO
Advancing Learning Environment
Design and Spatialised Pedagogic
Practice Through Evaluation
Dr Benjamin Cleveland
School Planning, Design & Construction Conference, Sydney
25 October, 2016
www.e21le.com
www.iletc.com.au
www.learnetwork.edu.au
