Structured flexibility when learning about resource diversity on the globe: The Dollar Street case

• The study is situated in a school built specifically with the idea of flexible design in the learning environment providing variation of rooms and furniture combined with access to a range of digital tools to enhance students’ 21st century skills. The aim of this study is to investigate how such flexible resources are used and experienced by teachers in practice. The findings demonstrate that teaching in such spatial wholeness requires including flexibility in the planning process and approaching student-driven choices in a meta-structure for students to participate and learn. Teaching Dollar Street required extensive collective planning to uphold the shared design throughout the spaces, activities, and resources.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

digitalization

learning environment

spatiality

educational design

Publication and Content Type

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