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Evaluating Learning Environments pp 75–90Cite as

Working Together in the Space-Between

Pedagogy, Learning Environment and Teacher Collaboration

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For teachers, the arrival of new generation learning environments (NGLEs) may offer the chance to do something that the predominant built infrastructure has discouraged – the opportunity to work together. Learning environment designs that deliberately group teachers, students and learning settings together signal a spatially inbuilt intentionality for teacher collaboration.

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Bradbeer, C. (2016). Working Together in the Space-Between. In: Imms, W., Cleveland, B., Fisher, K. (eds) Evaluating Learning Environments. Advances in Learning Environments Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-537-1_6

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