Investigation And Analysis Of Informal Learning Spaces In Urban Rail Transit Environments

Learning space can be divided into formal learning space and informal learning space.Formal learning space can be the space that the classroom for students to learn,library or the training instruction.With the progress of the Times and the maturity of the technology,people begin to accept knowledge from other place besides the classroom and other learning space.The concepts of mobile learning,lifelong learning and fragmentation learning begin to be accepted by education,and informal learning begins to be more important.It happens to be the time that people talk about something in the rest,the experience of senior teaching,the practice of the people and so on.With the deepening of the research on informal learning,the research content is no longer the concepts and theories,and it involves to the design of the informal learning for the venues,museum,campus and so on,but it is litter to design the informal learning for the subway environment.This research is based on the study of informal learning at home and abroad and the culture of subway,and comprehensively use literature method,observation method,interview method and case method for research.Complete the investigation of informal learning space in the shanghai subway environment,and make the subsequent analysis.Put forward the improvement suggestions for informal learning space,and design the specific.The research shows that some space in the subway environment can provide helpful support for the informal learning,but there are some insufficient in those spaces.Because of the lacking of corresponding intention,conception and theoretical basis,the utilization and design of informal learning for those spaces need to improve.The study can provide a certain reference function for the design and construction for the informal learning space for the subway environment.