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McGregor, Jane – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2004
In a world increasingly characterised by change, diversity and complexity, with educational institutions, like others, aspiring to become "learning organisations" and where the "knowledge economy" is apparently crucial, schools as workplaces for learning appear to remain peculiarly static. The majority exhibit physical,…
Descriptors: Space Classification, Interpersonal Relationship, Power Structure, Foreign Countries
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McGregor, Jane – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
Studies of the workplace of teachers commonly focus on the spaces of the classroom, staffroom and school as pre-given and bounded entities. This article explores the possibilities of moving beyond such topographies of enclosure, towards seeing space(-time) as recursively constructed with social relations and so made and remade. Boundaries are then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Conditions, Classroom Environment