Open-Space Learning: A Study in Transdisciplinary Pedagogy (The Wish List Series: Warwick Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities) - Hardcover

Dr. Nicholas Monk, Carol Chillington Rutter, Jonothan Neelands & Jonathan Heron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849660549 ISBN 13: 9781849660549

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Synopsis

Open-space Learning offers a unique resource to educators wishing to develop a workshop model of teaching and learning. The authors propose an embodied, performative mode of learning that challenges the primacy of the lecture and seminar model in higher education. Drawing on the expertise of the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning) at the University of Warwick, they show how pedagogic techniques developed from the theatrical rehearsal room may be applied effectively across a wide range of disciplines.

The book offers rich case-study materials, supplemented by video and documentary resources, available to readers electronically. These practical elements are supplemented by a discursive strand, which draws on the methods of thinkers such as Freire, Vygotsky and Kolb, to develop a formal theory around the notion of Open-space Learning.

CAPITAL was a collaboration between the University of Warwick's Department of English and the Royal Shakespeare Company. CAPITAL was succeeded by the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) in 2010.

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About the Author

Nicholas Monk is Research Fellow at IATL. Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of English at the University of Warwick and co-Director of IATL. Jonothan Neelands is Chair of Drama and Theatre Education at the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick. Jonathan Heron is Research Associate at IATL.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849660549
• ISBN 13: 9781849660549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146