ABSTRACT

This chapter outlines and explains the value of developing pedagogy for teaching about the spatial turn in an interdisciplinary spatial studies graduate course. It discusses novel methods of scheduling, the benefits of collaborative teaching, disciplinary literature that is focused on spaces in the region where one teaches, and the incorporation of non-traditional coursework that seeks to develop students' understanding of the many dimensions of space. It illustrates a pedagogical method for constructing a learning space that intentionally integrates those perspectives in the graduate classroom. There are a handful of books that make up an unofficial canon of critical spatial theory which are central to understanding the spatial turn and the contemporary scholarship that it has inspired. The chapter presents some of these important texts by detailing the ideas and concepts that deserve to be read in a graduate classroom.