Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture

This article addresses schoolteachers’ spatial work in the process of inhabiting and using a new school building. The study focuses on a historical case of a Danish open-plan school built in the early 1970s and shows how the teachers’ spatial work engages with questions of the organisation of bodies...

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Main Author: Lisa Rosén Rasmussen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-07-01
Series:Education Inquiry
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1857495
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description This article addresses schoolteachers’ spatial work in the process of inhabiting and using a new school building. The study focuses on a historical case of a Danish open-plan school built in the early 1970s and shows how the teachers’ spatial work engages with questions of the organisation of bodies, sound, furniture and teaching aids. The article uses Tim Ingold’s notion of making – stressing the making of architecture, as well as pedagogy, as a continuous and never-ending process – and Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism to explore the teachers’ spatial work as part of the intra-actions of and mutual coming into being of school space, pedagogical ideas, teachers and pupils. Finally, the article analyses the transnational entanglements of the teachers’ spatial work through a discussion of the open-plan school as an architectural and pedagogical model found across the globe.
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spelling doaj.art-45a043a138c040d1800a1c2a4c2732f92022-12-21T19:57:14ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEducation Inquiry2000-45082021-07-0112322524810.1080/20004508.2020.18574951857495Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architectureLisa Rosén Rasmussen0Aarhus UniversityThis article addresses schoolteachers’ spatial work in the process of inhabiting and using a new school building. The study focuses on a historical case of a Danish open-plan school built in the early 1970s and shows how the teachers’ spatial work engages with questions of the organisation of bodies, sound, furniture and teaching aids. The article uses Tim Ingold’s notion of making – stressing the making of architecture, as well as pedagogy, as a continuous and never-ending process – and Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism to explore the teachers’ spatial work as part of the intra-actions of and mutual coming into being of school space, pedagogical ideas, teachers and pupils. Finally, the article analyses the transnational entanglements of the teachers’ spatial work through a discussion of the open-plan school as an architectural and pedagogical model found across the globe.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1857495teachers’ spatial worknew materialisminhabitationopen-plan schoolingschool architecturecontemporary history
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Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture
Education Inquiry
teachers’ spatial work
new materialism
inhabitation
open-plan schooling
school architecture
contemporary history
title Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture
title_full Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture
title_fullStr Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture
title_full_unstemmed Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture
title_short Building Pedagogies. A historical study of teachers’ spatial work in new school architecture
title_sort building pedagogies a historical study of teachers spatial work in new school architecture
topic teachers’ spatial work
new materialism
inhabitation
open-plan schooling
school architecture
contemporary history
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1857495
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