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Rosén Rasmussen, Lisa – Education Inquiry, 2021
This article addresses schoolteachers' spatial work in the process of inhabiting and using a new school building. The study focuses on a historical case of a Danish open-plan school built in the early 1970s and shows how the teachers' spatial work engages with questions of the organisation of bodies, sound, furniture and teaching aids. The article…
Descriptors: Architecture, School Buildings, Building Design, Foreign Countries
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Awacorach, Judith; Jensen, Iben; Lassen, Inger; Olanya, David Ross; Zakaria, Hanan Lassen; Tabo, Geoffrey Olok – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The overall purpose of this study is to prefigure the feasibility of Problem Based Learning (PBL) for building research and employability capacity of MA-students in the context of Gulu University. Following a description of the basic tenets of PBL, we explain how PBL was used in experimental community outreach workshops for MA-students between…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Sustainability
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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Madsen, Lene Møller – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article studies issues of coloniality in so-called capacity-building projects between universities in Africa and Scandinavia. Even fifty years after independence, the African higher education landscape is a product of the colonial powers and subsequent uneven power relations, as argued by a number of researchers. The uneven geography and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Policy
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Qvortrup, Lars – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Based on experiences from a number of large scale data- and research-informed school development projects in Denmark and Norway, led by the author, three hypotheses are discussed: that an effective way of linking research and practice is achieved (1) using a capacity building approach, that is, to collaborate in the practical school context…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning
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Jensen, Camilla Gyldendahl – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2017
"Virtual reality" adds a new dimension to problem-based learning (PBL) environments in the architecture and building construction educations, where a realistic and lifelike presence in a building enables students to assess and discuss how the various solutions interact with each other. Combined with "Building Information…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Web 2.0 Technologies, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Leiringer, Roine; Cardellino, Paula – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
The Building Schools for the Future programme has been established to ensure that English secondary schools are designed or redesigned to allow for educational transformation. The programme represents the biggest single UK government investment in school buildings for over 50 years. For this reason, it poses a major challenge to those involved in…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Building Design, Foreign Countries, School Buildings