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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Educational research

the importance and effects of institutional spaces

edited byPaul Smeyers Marc Depaepe Edwin Keiner

Abstract

This collection of fresh analyses aims to map the links between educational theory and research, and the geographical and physical spaces in which teaching is practiced and discussed. The authors combine historical and philosophical perspectives in examining the differing institutional loci of education research, and also assess the potential and the limitations of each. The contributors trace the effects of "space' on educational practice in the classroom, in the broader institutions, and in the academic discipline of education—doing so for a range of international contexts. 

The chapters address various topics relating to the physical and geographical environment. How, for example, does geographical space shape researchers' mental frameworks? How did the learning environments in which young children are taught today evolve? To what extent did parochialism shape America's higher education system? How can our understanding of classroom practice be enhanced by concepts of space? The book acknowledges that texts themselves, as well as the research "arena', are "spaces' too, and notes the fascinating debate on the concept of space in the field of mathematics education. Indeed, as more and more students move online, the book analyses the rising importance of virtual spaces such as Web 2.0, which have major educational implications for researchers and students joining the innovative "virtual' universities of the future.

This publication, as well as the ones that are mentioned in the preliminary pages of this work, were realized by the Research Community (FWO Vlaanderen / Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium) Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education: Faces and Spaces of Educational Research.

Details | Table of Contents

American democracy and Harold D. Lasswell

institutional spaces of "failure" and "success", present and past

Lynda Stone

pp.11-29

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6247-3_2
Crossing the atlantic to gain knowledge in the field of psycho-pedagogy

the 1922 mission of Ovide Decroly and Raymond Buyse to the usa and the travel diary of the latter

Marc Depaepe Lieven D'hulst Frank Simon

pp.47-60

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6247-3_4
The emergence of institutional educational spaces for young children

in pursuit of more controllability of education and development as part of the long-term growth of educational space in history

Pauline R. Schreuder Jeroen J. H. Dekker

pp.61-77

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6247-3_5
A different training, a different practice

infant care in Belgium in the interwar years in the city and in the countryside

Pieter Dhondt

pp.79-93

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6247-3_6

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2013

Pages: 221

ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-6246-6

ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-6247-3

Full citation:

Smeyers Paul, Depaepe Marc, Keiner Edwin (2013) Educational research: the importance and effects of institutional spaces. Dordrecht, Springer.