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Learning Spaces in Adult Education. Current literature and academic reception
The topic of learning spaces has been received in a variety of ways in adult education and yet is weakly anchored in theory; even the term “learning space” is understood in different ways and stuffed with different concepts. This article provides an overview of the current body of literature and presents the diverse ways in which it has been received academically. It remains to be seen, the author explains, to what extent a broad understanding of space and a great variety of topics is useful in academic debate. Also received and discussed are effective changes in the dynamics of learning spaces, which are currently in vogue in adult education. The article concludes that there appears to be a kind of arbitrariness in topics that makes it possible to deal with nearly any question about learning from the perspective of space or place. (Ed.)