Exploring the role of space for school dropouts in the free school

Naka, Hajime

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Title

Exploring the role of space for school dropouts in the free school

Author(s)

Naka, Hajime

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• School dropouts
• Free school
• Spatio-temporal factors
• Everyday life information seeking
• Exploratory research

Abstract

This poster describes the preliminary findings from my initial fieldwork in school dropouts in the free school in Japan centred on a notable theme on three domains associated with their information behavior: the role of physical space in the free school, school dropouts’ information behavior, and their contextual meaning of space and their learning activities. In doing so, the researcher conducted a qualitative exploratory research mainly focusing on a hands-on fieldwork in the free school by observing school dropouts’ interaction in the room on a daily basis. So far the researcher has found that a spatio-temporal factor is associated with some school dropouts’ learning activity. This poster elaborates on the mechanism of school dropouts’ learning process associated with spatial movements in sequential order. This will help researchers, librarians, and school educators understand the characteristics of school dropouts’ learning activity and their contextual meaning of “learning”, “playing” and “consuming”.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Hajime Naka

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