Thirty Years of Learning Environments

Looking Back and Looking Forward
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38770-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Advances in Learning Environments Research

This volume is a commemorative book celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Learning Environments of the American Educational Researchers’ Association. It includes a historical perspective starting with the formation of the SIG in 1984 and the first program space at the AERA annual meeting in 1985 in Chicago. This retrospective notes other landmarks in the development of the SIG such as the creation of the international journal Learning Environments Research.

The study of learning environments was first conceptualized around the need to develop perceptual and psychosocial measures for describing students’ individual or shared educational experiences (e.g. ‘feel of the class’ or ‘classroom climate’). Over the ensuing decades, the field expanded considerably from its early roots in science education to describe other phenomenon such as teacher-student interpersonal relationships, or applications in pre-service teacher education and action research.


The book also describes several new areas of promise for the expanding field of learning environments research that in the future will include more diverse contexts and applications. These will include new contexts but established research programs in areas such as information and communications technology and environmental education, but also in emerging research contexts such as the physical classroom environment and links among learning environment contexts and students’ emotional health and well-being.

Contributors are: Perry den Brok, Rosie Dhaliwhal, Barry J. Fraser, Catherine Martin-Dunlop, David Henderson, Melissa Loh, Tim Mainhardt, George Sirrakos, Alisa Stanton, Theo Wubbels, and David B. Zandvliet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zandvliet, David B.

Fraser, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

1 Milestones in the Evolution of the Learning Environments Field over the Past Three Decades

Barry J. Fraser

2 My Journey in the Learning Environments Research Community: Research on Teacher–Student Interactions and Relationships

Theo Wubbels

3 Developments in Quantitative Methods and Analyses for Studying Learning Environments

Perry den Brok, Tim Mainhard and Theo Wubbels

4 Looking Back and Looking Forward

David B. Zandvliet

5 Evaluating the Impact of a Purposefully-Designed Active Learning Space on Student Outcomes and Behaviours in an Undergraduate Architecture Course

C. Martin-Dunlop, C. Hohmann, A. Alabanza Akers, J. Determan, L. Lewter and I. Williams

6 Development and Validation of the Questionnaire Assessing Connections to Science (QuACS)

Georgeos Sirrakos, Jr. and Barry J. Fraser

7 Using Classroom Environment Perceptions to Guide Teacher Professional Learning: A Mixed-Methods Case Study

David Henderson and Melissa Loh

8 Impacts of Learning Environments on Student Well-Being in Higher Education

Alisa Stanton, David B. Zandvliet and Rosie Dhaliwal

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David B. Zandvliet, Ph.D. (1999), is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. An experienced researcher, he has published and presented widely on the topic of learning environments. His interests lie in the areas of science, and environmental education.

Barry J. Fraser, Ph.D. (1976), is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Widely considered a seminal thinker around research on students’ psychosocial environment perceptions, his main research interests include science education, learning environments and educational evaluation.