Next Steps in the Journey: Creating “Third Spaces”: Promoting Learning through Dialogue

Wilhelm offers us a definition of “third spaces” as “more democratic and dialogic spaces than a classroom, as well as a metaphor for a space in which new, hybrid, and challenging discourses and real-world knowledge and applications are created.” With helpful background and examples, he urges us to create such spaces for our students, adamant that the resulting learning becomes “separate from both home and work/school, while drawing on the resources of both. It becomes new, interesting, and real.”