Place-based Educational Development: What Center for Teaching and Learning Spaces Look Like (and Why That Matters)

Authors

Laura Cruz, Pennsylvania State UniversityFollow
Karen Huxtable-Jester, University of Texas at Dallas
Brian Smentkowski, University of Idaho
Martin Springborg, Inver Hills Community College

ORCID IDs

Cruz 0000-0001-5817-8934

Huxtable-Jester 0000-0002-8050-1950

Smentkowski 0000-0003-2194-1996

Date of this Version

Fall 2021

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (fall 2021) 40(1)

doi: 10.3998/tia.960

Comments

License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

This study seeks to explore the physical spaces centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) occupy; with an emphasis on gaining a better picture of what CTL spaces look like; where they are located; how they developed: and what these spaces represent. We gathered visual, empirical, and qualitative data to take the first steps towards developing a shared vision of not only of our physical spaces, but also as a jumping off point for further analysis of the CTL as a meaningful place.