ROLE – Research On Learning Environments
ROLE inquires into educational environments using relational and spatial perspectives, with an aim to contribute to research leading to better conditions for teaching, learning and social sustainability.
ROLE studies pedagogical and didactical aspects of relations between (a), design and usage of schools, preschools and playgrounds, artefacts such as furniture and technology, (b), conceptions of education and its purposes among students, staff and management, in particular during transitions into new kinds of learning environments including hybrid and multi-zone ones (c) teacher and student agency in learning environments, (d) technological surveillance and safety in schools, and (e), social practices in education – relationships in schools, preschools and leisure pedagogy.
Collaboration
- Ongoing research projects
- A learning-environment testbed to evaluate benefits for lighting beyond retrofits
- Success factors for functional preschool environments
- CoReD - Collaborative Redesign with Schools
- Research study on learning environments in two schools
- Multifunction house Southern Hemlingby
- Sustainable relational professionality (dissertation project)
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Example of learning environment. Photo: Anneli Frelin
Finished research projects
- Sharper school The project follows teachers during the process of introducing an activity based learning environment.
A short film that introduces the learning environment - From Design to Practice - School environments from a Nordic perspective
- Building school - collaboration with architect Suzanne de Laval, post occupancy evaluation in nine schools using walk through evaluation. A short film about the project
- Building a sustainable educational environment - the pilot study examined a newly opened secondary school, purposefully created to counteract segregation.
- Interstices in school - A case study examining relational practices to attain a safe environment in a newly renovated school.
- Youth and sustainable participatory citizenship
Publications from members
Contact
Professor Anneli Frelin anneli.frelin@hig.se
Docent Jan Grannäs jan.grannas@hig.se