Innovative Learning Environments and spaces of belonging for students with disability in mainstream settings

Title
Innovative Learning Environments and spaces of belonging for students with disability in mainstream settings
Publication Date
2024
Author(s)
Page, Angela
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9857-9054
Email: apage31@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:apage31
Anderson, Joanna
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-0909
Email: jander62@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jander62
Charteris, Jennifer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-6730
Email: jcharte5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jcharte5
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/0305764X.2024.2397398
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/63138
Abstract

In many schools across Australasia, single-cell classrooms have been replaced by ‘innovative learning environments’ (ILEs). This design of education spaces has had pedagogical and physical ramifications for students and teachers. This qualitative study, conducted in New Zealand and Australia, investigated how students with disability responded to ILE design. Students with disabilities have, in traditional classrooms, often been reported to be isolated and marginalised. This study sought to examine if the ILE design inits material, pedagogical and relational space supported students with disability in developing a sense of belonging at their schools.The analysis of interview data utilised the Spaces of Belonging Framework. Findings highlight that belonging was facilitated for students with disabilities across all three domains of the framework. Skillful ILE design can promote the inclusion of students with disability and support academic and social outcomes. This enables a sense of connectedness to the school environment.

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Citation
Cambridge Journal of Education, 54(5), p. 607-626
ISSN
1469-3577
0305-764X
Start page
607
End page
626
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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