The Framing of Educational Space: an Intro

English 340- Limited Fork Theory Project
Topic of Exploration: The Framing of Educational Space

What is educational space?
Educational space is such a vague term, and this is very useful in this journey for Limited Fork Theory! The term educational space can be broken down to have a myriad of different definitions.

For basic foundation for this exploration, let us turn to wiki (wikipedia.org) because in our modern times, wiki seems to have a nice summary for nearly everything ☺. Wikipedia defines education as:
“Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realization of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology —often more profound than they realize—though family teaching may function very informally.”
^→→→→ * I already see similarity (symmetry maybe) to LTF via “mapping”!!!
Wikipedia’s summary of space is a little more complex so we will focus space pertaining to its controversial aspect dealt with in Psychology:
“In philosophy

Main article: Philosophy of space and time

Space has a range of definitions:

* One view of space is that it is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a set of dimensions in which objects are separated and located, have size and shape, and through which they can move.
* A contrasting view is that space is part of a fundamental abstract mathematical conceptual framework (together with time and number) within which we compare and quantify the distance between objects, their sizes, their shapes, and their speeds. In this view, space does not refer to any kind of entity that is a "container" that objects "move through".

These opposing views are relevant also to definitions of time. Space is typically described as having three dimensions, see Three-dimensional space and that three numbers are needed to specify the size of any object and/or its location with respect to another location. Modern physics does not treat space and time as independent dimensions, but treats both as features of space-time – a conception that challenges intuitive notions of distance and time.”

Wiki puts a light of clarity on each word separately, now let’s put the two together. Educational space can mean a dimension or mental state where education takes place (the actual process of learning…). It could mean the intangible realm in which a range of topics exist in which education is able to take place.

…this must be a very LARGE realm…

^→→→This sense of educational space will be looked at as (but not limited to!) the primary concept explored through this forking of “The Framing of Educational Space”. The actual rationale behind the idea of educational space as a system that may be (and is, depending on individual perceptions) flawed and may be a primary factor that can hinder one’s creativity.

AN ALTERNATIVE PERCEPTION OF EDUCATIONAL SPACE:

Educational space could also be viewed as a physical entity (i.e. a building) where education is practiced. This could include the larger physical view of education of an entire institution that regulates education to certain levels, graduating to the higher levels based on performance and acquired skill; basically school, university, college, etc. This idea of education is very well applicable to our forking of educational space. The physical organization of education is apparent in society; we (not all of mankind, unfortunately due to a myriad of reasons) all go to school from a very young age and (for much of the general population) hope to go to higher educational institutions where more focused education is emphasized, aspiring to a degree of a field in education.
• What if this didn’t exist?
• What if we were able to choose to go to school or not from a very young age?
• What if there were alternative educational systems (spaces) in which one was able to learn, improve, and acquire same levels of skill as the one implemented in society today?
• Is Limited Fork Theory able to be a system of education space? Is it not already? We are learning from it as we conduct our project explorations… this will be looked at, for sure, throughout this project.

…Ok, I’m going out on tangents now, but then again, as I have conversed with the PROFORKER, tangents are part of forking, indeed….

FOCUSED... again on this alternative perception of educational space with a sense of forking…
If educational space can, also simply be a location in which education is practiced, then couldn’t anywhere really be an educational space?
- The entire U of M campus…
- Espresso Royale, Starbucks, and all the other numerous cafes that exist in this nation and tutoring, studying, teaching and learning all take place..
- Libraries…
- Personal homes…
- In the oceans where people are researching, learning, and teaching others about marine biology, for example…
…THE LIST GOES ON!!! IT COULD BE INFINITE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT….

Please, continue to join me on my exploration of “The Framing of Educational Space”....