OJUA2041 Language in Learning Environments (5 op)

• understanding organizational cultures through schoolscape
• basic methods in schoolscape research
• understanding how interaction takes place in various schoolscape settings
• community planning and negotiation/contestation of schoolscapes
• current trends in learning environment design
• developing schoolscape-aware pedagogies

Upon completing of the course the student will be able to

• critically study and interpret physical learning environments (that is, schoolscapes)
• construct and express their view on the impact of physical learning environments on interaction, with a special regard to multilingual interaction
• build strategies for the conscious design and development of physical learning environments in their own teaching practice

Chiles, Prue & Leo Care (eds. 2015). Building schools: key issues for contemporary design. Birkhäuser.

Dudek, Mark (2015). Schools and Kindergartens: A Design Manual. Birkhäuser.

Laihonen, Petteri & Tamás Péter Szabó (eds. 2018). Studying the visual and material dimensions of education and learning. Linguistics and Education, Vol. 44. [Special issue]

Articles to be announced.