School Spaces for Student Wellbeing and Learning

Section One: Conceptual understandings of school spaces, learning and wellbeing.- Towards a spatiality of wellbeing.- Sociomaterial dimensions of early literacy learning spaces: Moving through classrooms with teacher and children.- Promoting children's wellbeing and values learning in risky learning spaces.- School design and wellbeing: Spatial and literary meeting points.- Section Two: Student experience of school psaces for wellbeing and learning.- Imaginings and representations of high school learning spaces: Year 6 student experiences.- High school spaces and student transitioning: Designing for student wellbeing.- Students reimagining school libraries as spaces of learning and wellbeing.- Creating learning spaces that promote wellbeing, participation and engagement: Implications for students on the autism spectrum.- Enhancing wellbeing through broadening the primary curriculum in the UK with Open Futures.- Section Three: Participatory designing of school spaces for wellbeing and learning.- Fostering educator participation in learning space designing: Insights from a Master of Education unit of study.- Participatory principles in practice: Designing learning spaces that promote wellbeing for young adolescents during the transition to secondary school.- Creating a sensory garden for early years leaners: Participatory designing for student wellbeing.- 13 Creating the third teacher through participatory learning environment design: Reggio Emilia principles support student wellbeing.- Section Four: Designing 'space' for student wellbeing as flourishing.- Designing 'space' for student wellbeing as flourishing.

Hilary Hughes is an adjunct associate professor at the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. From 2015 to 2018 she taught units in the Master of Education program, including Designing Spaces for Learning. Her research interests include learning space design, information literacy and informed learning, and international student experience. She has been chief investigator for two Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage projects and has completed several other funded projects. Hilary's qualifications include a PhD (QUT, Australia), MA in Librarianship (Sheffield University, UK) and BA Combined Honours in Spanish and Romance Linguistics (Birmingham University, UK). In 2010 Hilary was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.

Jill Franz is a professor at the School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has extensive experience in academic departmental administration as well as in professional practice, research and teaching of architectural and interior design. Her research focuses on the environment and its potential to enhance health, wellbeing and social justice. She is chief investigator for an Australian Research Council funded project: Innovative procurement theories to optimise education per cost of school.

Jill Willis is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She teaches in the area of leadership and management studies, enabling school leaders to plan for and lead change. Her research interests focus on learner agency, pedagogy, assessment, and learning spaces. Jill's research projects include a Queensland Government Horizon Grant exploring with partner schools how participatory evaluation can inform design of new senior assessment responses. Jill's qualifications include a PhD (QUT, Australia), MEd in Educational Leadership (JCU), Graduate Diploma in Education (BCAE) and BA (UQ).