University spaces: Creating cité and place

Temple, Paul

doi:10.18546/lre.17.2.09

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“…There is then a related challenge within a changing hybrid context of how we quantify and justify physical university spaces which continue to draw intensely from capital budgets and resources (Lamb et al, 2022). These challenges require effective ways of understanding and evaluating campus learning spaces and their interactions, such that pedagogic and infrastructural resources can be better invested (Temple, 2019).…”

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Combining Worlds: A Mixed Method for Understanding Learning Spaces

McCrone

Kingsbury

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Understanding student interaction in learning spaces is an ongoing challenge. The move away from didactic lecture delivery towards more active and hybrid learning renders this challenge ever more difficult. Researching pedagogic use of informal learning space, which is not formally timetabled or controlled, is always challenging because it is interacted with only transiently by both students and teachers. This paper introduces a mixed methods, phenomenological approach used in recent research to investigate campus learning spaces in face-to-face learning contexts. The full mixed methods approach combined space occupancy monitoring data with naturalistic ethnographic observation, field interviews and, where appropriate, more formal in-depth interviews to provide an effective way of understanding student and teacher engagement with learning spaces. Convergent use of these qualitative and quantitative methods yielded data which informed the application of subsequent methods, and the investment of researcher, pedagogic and infrastructural resource. In this paper we argue that as learning outside of formal teaching spaces increases, these mixed methods enable better, more efficient monitoring of pedagogic use of informal learning spaces. The mixed method can be adapted depending on the question being addressed and has the potential to inform resource allocation and investment into pedagogic and infrastructural change.

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Combining Worlds: A Mixed Method for Understanding Learning Spaces

McCrone

Kingsbury

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions

Budd

2021

High Educ

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How can we better understand the when and where of higher education, and why should we? How can we connect and differentiate between institutions beyond the obvious characteristics of national setting, size, age, and status, while still being mindful of these elements? Two books released this year offer insights into these questions, Utopian Universities edited by Jill Pellew and Miles Taylor, and Non-University Higher Education by Holly Henderson. What emerges from both individually, but particularly when they are read together, is how time and place are not only important but that they perpetually intertwined.It is well documented that where you study or work, geographically, organisationally, and reputationally, combined with who you are, is materially important in terms of study or working conditions and educational and social trajectories (e.g. Spurling 2015; Bennett 2018). There has been, though, a relative neglect of place in higher education in the sense of institutions as sites that constitute a simultaneous combination of historical, social, and physical elements (Temple 2019). Some of this may be associated with organizational anonymity around ethical and/or reputational concerns, but a great deal can be learnt without identifying exactly what the locations of enquiry were. Without unpacking individual institutions in depth, though, we can be left with the implication that what transpires within universities of similar profiles -what Whyte (2021) calls 'family resemblances' -is somewhat uniform. It is, of course, important to understand how wider macro trends play out, but not at the cost of the local or micro.This review first provides an overview of these two books. It then pays particular attention to the distinctive but overlapping ways that temporality and geography play out in them, before considering what their contributions to the literature might be and what they might have done differently.

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Development Features of Informal Educational Campus Spaces

Kuznetsov,

Leshukov,

Eliseenko

2023

umj

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The research aims to analyze the role of the university campus and its informal educational spaces as one of the resources in ensuring the main university functions. The article discusses the features of informal educational spaces and approaches to their management. The empirical part of the study is based on interviews with university administrators and experts. A typology of informal educational spaces and examples of management practices in development are proposed.

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University spaces: Creating cité and place

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Combining Worlds: A Mixed Method for Understanding Learning Spaces

Combining Worlds: A Mixed Method for Understanding Learning Spaces

Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions

Development Features of Informal Educational Campus Spaces

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