TY - BOOK ID - 112267078 TI - Learning spaces : creating opportunities for knowledge creation in academic life PY - 2008 SN - 9780335222315 9780335222308 9780335235254 0335235255 1281331252 9781281331250 0335222315 0335222307 PB - Maidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York, NY : McGraw Hill/Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher. KW - Learning and scholarship. KW - College environment. KW - School environment. KW - Personal space. KW - College buildings. KW - Enseignement supérieur KW - Savoir et érudition KW - Milieu universitaire KW - Milieu scolaire KW - Espace personnel KW - Constructions universitaires UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:112267078 AB - The ability to have or to find space in academic life seems to be increasingly difficult since we seem to be consumed by teaching and bidding, overwhelmed by emails and underwhelmed by long arduous meetings. This book explores the concept of learning spaces, the idea that there are diverse forms of spaces within the life and life world of the academic where opportunities to reflect and critique their own unique learning position occur.Learning Spaces sets out to challenge the notion that academic thinking cannot take place in cramped, busy working spaces, and argues instead for a need to recognise and promote new opportunities for learning spaces to emerge in academic life. The book examines the ideas that:Learning spaces are increasingly absent in academic lifeThe creation and re-creation of learning spaces is vital for the survival of the academic communityThe absence of learning spaces is resulting in increasing dissolution and fragmentation of academic identitiesLearning spaces need to be valued and possibly redefined in order to regain and maintain the intellectual health of academeIn offering possibilities for creative learning spaces, this innovative book provides key reading for those interested in the future of universities including educational developers, researchers, managers and policy makers. ER -