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ACCESS Vol 41 2021

Student agency in Non-Traditional Learning Spaces

Life in-between and on the fringes

Leon Benade , Alastair Wells and Kelly Tabor-Price

Leon Benade , Alastair Wells and Kelly Tabor-Price Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand   Abstract Non-Traditional Learning Spaces (NTLS) boasting innovative building designs that embody an array of modern technology, visually and functionally sever schooling practices from the factory model, suggesting a reconceptualisation of what it is to ‘do school’ at the level of […]

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Benade, L., Wells, A., & Tabor-Price, K. (2021). Student agency in Non-Traditional Learning Spaces: Life in-between and on the fringes. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 41(1), 64-76. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac21.4832
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Ideas

What has the pandemic ever done for me?

Paul Gibbs

At the outset, I want to state that I do believe that COVID-19 is a serious health, social, economic and moral problem. COVID-19 exists and can bring huge sorrow and suffering. It is real, and it is discriminatory. It finds the injustices in our society of poverty and ethnicity and exploits them in its destructive […]

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Gibbs, P. (2020). What has the pandemic ever done for me? PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/ideas/what-has-the-pandemic-ever-done-for-me/
Ideas are Open Access, freely available for readers to download and copy with proper attribution with a CC – BY – ND licence

Paul Gibbs

Professor Paul Gibbs is Director of Education Research at the University of Middlesex, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Open University in Hong Kong and the University of Cyprus. He has published 20 books on topics ranging from the marketing of higher education to vocationalism and higher education, informed by an approach to transdisciplinarity that draws on Heidegger, neo-Confucian thought and the insights of Basarab Nicolescu.