Practitioners’ perspectives and needs: Developing skills to support unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASCs) in experiencing ‘belonging’ in English educational spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Ward
Keyword(s):  
Educational Spaces

ISSUES OF DESIGN OF INFORMAL LEARNING SPACES IN THE UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Dmytrash O ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
General Characteristic ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Flexible Planning ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The University

The article presents an overview and analysis of the state of research in the field of design and exploitation of modern educational spaces in universities around the world, namely areas with flexible planning, called informal learning space. According to the research conducted, the general characteristic and classification were developed and the basic principles of designing this space were revealed. The study identified several problems that arise during its exploitation, which should be taken into account in the designing process. There is described the experience of educational design of interuniversity cultural centres with the application of the developed theoretical bases of designing of informal educational space.

Reflections on student power: An absurdist viewpoint

2020 ◽  
pp. 175774382098417
Author(s):  
Brad Bierdz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Student Power ◽  
Attention To Students

This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these student populations are conceived as being the most empowered students within a broad educational landscape, which this piece foundationally challenges. Fundamentally, this article uses a Camusian or Absurdist notion of power and social identity to make sense of how students in higher education take up space within seemingly disempowered educational spaces only to insistently and futilely call to themselves and other students as empowered, although such insistences are empty fallacies of specific social humanities hailing towards their only perceived means of ‘valuable’ social interaction defined by modern conceptions of humanity always already within power relations.

Sometimes Leaving Means Staying: Race and White Teachers’ Emotional Investments

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (13) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Zeus Leonardo ◽  
Blanca Gamez-Djokic
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Emotional praxis is not a phrase usually associated with teaching and teacher education. Yet when race enters educational spaces, emotions frequently run high. In particular, Whites are often ill-equipped to handle emotions about race, either becoming debilitated by them or consistently evading them. Without critically understanding the relationship between race and emotions—or, simply, racialized emotions—teachers are unprepared to teach one of the most important topics in modern education. This chapter addresses this gap in education and teacher training by surveying the philosophical, sociological, and burgeoning literature on emotion in education to arrive at critical knowledge about the function and constitutive role it plays in discourses on race. Specifically, the argument delves into white racial emotions in light of the known fact that most teachers in the United States are White women. This means that our critical understanding of emotion during the teaching and learning interaction entails appreciation of both its racialized and gendered dimensions, and attention to both race and gender becomes part of emotional praxis. Finally, the essay ends with a proposal for an intersubjective race theory of emotion in education.

HE IMPACT OF COLOUR ON STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION IN LEARNING SPACES

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Salahaddin Baper ◽  
Husein Husein ◽  
Sazgar Salim
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Background Color ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Color System ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The Impact

Color has a crucial impact on students’ perception. It encourages the learning atmosphere to be affiliated with the anticipated learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of contextual colors on student’s perception of interior spaces and to validate previous related studies that emphasize on colors as a media to convey meanings that affect behaviors and students’ perception as well. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to determine and validate previous related studies regarding the impact of background color on student’s perception. Meanwhile the study evaluates the previous relevant models in order to validate or reject previous assumptions. The study concentrates on quantitative survey method using in depth questionnaire to determine student’s perception at UHDUniversity of Human Development, Sulaimani. Seven Colors from Munsell color system (yellow, green, blue, purple, white, and black, grey) are applied in the test in order to indicate the students’ perceptual status. The results show that cool colors like white, green and blue are mostly recommended for educational spaces. These colors affected positively the perception of respondents and add feeling of hope, curiosity and satisfaction to the group. In contrast dark colors (black and grey) are indicated as colors of worry and fear. The findings demonstrate that environments colors play an important effect on student’s perception. The study concluded that colors affect the behavior, performance and mood of the space users.

scholarly journals Non-formal spaces of socio-cultural accompaniment: Responding to young unaccompanied refugees – reflections from the Partispace project

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Janet Batsleer ◽  
Björn Andersson ◽  
Susanne Liljeholm Hansson ◽  
Jessica Lütgens ◽  
Yağmur Mengilli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The Uk

Drawing on research in progress in the Partispace project we make a case for the recognition of the importance of non-formal spaces in response to young refugees across three different national contexts: Frankfurt in Germany; Gothenburg in Sweden; and Manchester in the UK. It is argued that recognition of local regulation and national controls of immigration which support climates of hostility makes it important to recognise and affirm the significance of non-formal spaces and ‘small spaces close to home’ which are often developed in the ‘third space’ of civil society and arise from the impulses driven by the solidarity of volunteers. In these contexts it is important that practices of hospitality can develop which symbolically reconstitute refugees as hosts and subjects of a democratic conversation, without which there is no possible administrative solution to the refugee crisis. It is essential that educational spaces such as schools, colleges and universities forge strong bonds with such emergent spaces.

scholarly journals Using a Low-Cost Playful Strategy to Present Sign Language on Non-Formal Educational Spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (06) ◽  
pp. 1230-1241
Author(s):  
Tathianna Prado Dawes ◽  
G. H. V. S. Alves ◽  
Helena Carla Castro ◽  
Andréia Santos Silva ◽  
Lucianne Fragel-Madeira
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Present Sign

scholarly journals Enacting the contested past: conflict narratives in educational spaces

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunčana Laketa ◽  
Dilyara Suleymanova
Keyword(s):  
School Settings ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Conflict Narratives ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
School Curricula

Abstract. The article analyzes unfoldings and enactments of narratives on a politically divisive past in educational spaces of two multi-ethnic settings – the Republic of Tatarstan and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We explore how the contested past is represented within official school curricula and how it unfolds in concrete school settings. In each case we have a historic event that is a politically divisive and contentious issue. Though one of these historical events lies far back in history (1552) and the other is more recent (1992–1995), in both cases the contested past is being silenced in the official history curricula. The paper is guided by the following question: in what ways does a past that is muted within a history curriculum continue to speak and structure the relationships of the school present? In order to answer this question, we situate our work within the literature on ethnographies of education, as well as the relatively new but burgeoning field of inquiry on emotional geographies and anthropologies of education. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in these two settings, we argue that the narratives on the violent past form and divide national communities not only through divergent views and interpretations of the historic event by the groups involved but also through strong emotional attachments to these narratives. We conclude by calling for a sustained engagement with emotions in educational settings as sites of embodiment that work to negotiate and actively rework top-down educational narratives, especially when considering the processes of identity-building through school spaces.

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