Abstract:

The history of educational space is a new field of research in the history of education. Space has gone through three transformations of material space, spiritual space and social space, which eventually led to the triadic space theory integrating materiality, spirituality and sociality, triggering the spatial turn in the field of humanities and social sciences. Influenced by this, the exploration of space in the history of education has also developed from focusing on material space to focusing on the interaction between space and human beings, highlighting the rich connotation of educational space. Taking the temple school space of the Song Dynasty as an example, drawing on the analytical framework of ternary space, the temple school space of the Song Dynasty is divided into the physical space consisting of buildings and artefacts, the symbolic space consisting of architectural nomenclature, sacrificial figures and stone tablets, and the activity space consisting of rituals and learning activities. The triadic space intersects and complements each other, together revealing the basic pattern and nurturing role of the temple school space in the Song Dynasty.

Key words: spatial concepts, spatial turn, ternary space, temple space in the Song Dynasty