The experience of learning atmosphere in the learning commons

Cox, Andrew M.

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Title

The experience of learning atmosphere in the learning commons

Author(s)

Cox, Andrew M.

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Space
• Learning commons
• Embodiment
• Informal learning
• Sensory studies

Abstract

Even within highly planned environments such as university libraries and information commons, we should take seriously the need to understand how space is experienced and how this shapes learning as an embodied process. This preliminary results paper explores students’ experience of informal learning spaces, through the lens of sensory studies. It is based on data from walk with interviews and focus groups, in a British University. The results of the initial round of data collection and analysis show how study atmospheres are experienced in sensory and emotional terms, especially how particular qualities of light, visibility and sound are felt in the course of different types of informal learning. The next stage of the research will develop a better understanding of how different learning atmospheres are socially constructed based on observation and further walk with interviews.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Andrew Cox

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