Speaker: Antti Sarri, University of Tampere

Time: 14:00-16:00 p.m., October 9, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: Graduate School of Education, Room 502

Abstract:

New spatial arrangements in schools are designed to support new pedagogies flexible uses of physical spaces and digital technology founded on the latest scientific knowledge on learning. A case in point is Future Classroom Lab (FCL), a classroom concept developed and spread across Europe. FCL promotes the use of digital technologies and divides the classroom into different functional zones. In this presentation, the FCL is analyzed as a prototype that incites open exploration in the use and design of classrooms, enabling new and different functions, meanings, and emotions to emerge. Prototypes secure the continuous transformation of policy spaces through relatively open variation, differentiation and exploration. As such, they are emblematic of contemporary ways of governing space-times of education in societies that are increasingly becoming topological, i.e., thought about and acted on in terms of overcoming barriers, distances and differences.

Source: Graduate School of Education