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<p>There is an observable trend in a number of countries, of schools moving away from the traditional or industrial modes of school organisation and leaning towards what has become known as modern or innovative learning environments (MLEs or ILEs). This has created difficulties for educational leaders who have found the change problematic. This article addresses the need to develop an appropriate and comprehensive conceptual understanding of the ILEs in order to introduce a different learning model and environment. In this model the authors use the notion of architectures to describe the process of “building” the concept. They propose the development of learning, social, thinking, futures, organisational and physical architectures.</p>
<p>The article is speculative, yet includes appropriate theorizing. It acknowledges that the notion of ILEs is new, and requires time to be refined and embedded in existing educational systems.</p>
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There is an observable trend in a number of countries, of schools moving away from the traditional or industrial modes of school organisation and leaning towards what has become known as modern or innovative learning environments (MLEs or ILEs). This has created difficulties for educational leaders who have found the change problematic. This article addresses the need to develop an appropriate and comprehensive conceptual understanding of the ILEs in order to introduce a different learning model and environment. In this model the authors use the notion of architectures to describe the process of “building” the concept. They propose the development of learning, social, thinking, futures, organisational and physical architectures.
The article is speculative, yet includes appropriate theorizing. It acknowledges that the notion of ILEs is new, and requires time to be refined and embedded in existing educational systems.

Innovative learning environments: Beginning with the concept

Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

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There is an observable trend in a number of countries, of schools moving away from the traditional or industrial modes of school organisation and leaning...

Innovative learning environments: Beginning with the concept

Published Online: Apr 21, 2019

Page range: 7 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jelpp-2017-002

Keywords
Innovative / modern learning environments, learning architectures, social justice, learning, innovation in schools

© 2017 Jeremy Kedian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Innovative learning environments: Beginning with the concept

Published Online: Apr 21, 2019

Page range: 7 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jelpp-2017-002

KeywordsInnovative / modern learning environments, learning architectures, social justice, learning, innovation in schools

© 2017 Jeremy Kedian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Innovative / modern learning environments, learning architectures, social justice, learning, innovation in schools