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Putting Flow Theory into Educational Practice: The Key School's Flow Activities Room. Report to the Benton Center for Curriculum and Instruction, University of Chicago.

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Whalen, Samuel P.; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly – 1991

The Key School in Indianapolis, an experimental elementary school, was founded by eight experienced teachers who believed that schools can be enjoyable as well as rigorous. This report focuses on one feature of the school, the Flow Activities Room (FAR). The development of the FAR was based on the school's commitment to the theories of multiple…

Descriptors: Attention, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Educational Experiments