Paper Title
School as a Social Space: University Researchers’ Reflections on The ‘Spatial Turn’

Abstract
This paper is a reflection of researchers about how the “spatial turn” changed their approach to researching schools. This reflection is focused mainly on their first-hand realisation of the limitations of marginalisingsocietal spatiality against its temporality. While, much research in education, policy and practice is mainly on historical aspects, these researchers chose to use a spatial lens to examine the enabling and constraining structural, cultural and agential factors in school spaces in relation to the execution of daily practices. Their reflection highlights peculiar issues about school as a social space and how that knowledge may be used to improve the performance of schools’ actors on their daily practices. Using reflexive analysis as a method, the paper contributes significant knowledge to the field of education and educational research. Keywords - Social space, spatial justice, school research, spatiality, temporality