Educational Research: The Importance and Effects of Institutional Spaces

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 educa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor), Keiner, Edwin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Educational Research
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Exploring a multitude of spaces in education and educational research
  • 2. American democracy and Harold D. Lasswell: Institutional spaces of ‘failure’ and ‘success’, present and past
  • 3. The power of the parochial in shaping the American system of Higher Education
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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
  • 6. A different training, a different practice. Infant care in Belgium in the interwar years in the city and in the countryside
  • 7. Disability, rehabilitation & the Great War: Making space for silence in the History of Education
  • 8. Interpretation: The space of text
  • 9. Exploring educational research as a multi-layered discursive space.-10. The spaces of mathematics: Dynamic encounters between local and universal
  • 11. The classroom space: A problem or a mystery?- 12. Spaces and places in the virtual university
  • 13. Material contexts and creation of meaning in virtual places: Web 2.0 as a space of educational research. 14. From entrepreneurialism to innovation: Research, critique, and the Innovation Union
  • 15. About the Authors
  • Index