Spatial ecology: learning and working environments that change people and organizations.

BEARD, Colin (2012). Spatial ecology: learning and working environments that change people and organizations. In: ALEXANDER, Keith and PRICE, Ilfryn, (eds.) Managing organizational ecologies: space, management and organization. New York, Routledge, 69-80.

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Abstract

Purpose: Explores examples of leading edge corporate workspaces and innovative learning and development methods. Results: Advocates appreciating the complexities of the spatial relational dynamics of learning in driving new working practices Recommendations: As we concede the inadequacy of linear forms of communication, there is increasing recognition that spatial ecologies embracing mobility and flexibility can gear up individual and organizational learning Conclusions A ‘post kinetic’ lineage is evident as perceptual and motor-spatial metaphors pervade human conceptual language. The contemporary corporeal turn acknowledges this inheritance with the potential to liberate, or counter-intuitively impede, learning by people and organizations.

Item Type:	Book Section
Research Institute, Centre or Group:	Centre for Pedagogic Research and Innovation
Depositing User:	Colin Beard
Date Deposited:	23 Jul 2012 15:59
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2012 15:59
URI:	http://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5542

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