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Sarah T. Zipf; Leqi Li; Gala Campos Oaxaca; Crystal M. Ramsay – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
Historically, classrooms have utilized stationary furniture, facing front toward a centralized instructor position, and limiting student-to-student interactions. Such classrooms often stem from design processes that tend to focus on building codes and feedback from investors, architects, and planners, which leaves little input from instructors and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design, Space Utilization
Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Andrew Leger – College Teaching, 2025
Recent years have witnessed the spread of purpose-built active learning classrooms throughout the higher education sector. While these innovative learning spaces are well-suited for a variety of active learning strategies, their lack of a single focal point means they are inconvenient spaces for lecturing. While educational developers often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, College Instruction
Black, Melissa Heather; McGarry, Sarah; Churchill, Lynn; D'Arcy, Emily; Dalgleish, Julia; Nash, Isabelle; Jones, Alisala; Tse, Tin Yan; Gibson, Jane; Bölte, Sven; Girdler, Sonya – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Until recently, built environments have been designed exclusively to meet the needs of neurotypical populations; however, there is increasing recognition of the need to make built environments more accommodating for neurodiverse populations, including autistic individuals. This scoping review aims to comprehensively explore and synthesise this…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Environmental Influences, Design, Space Utilization
Benade, Leon – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
The role played by innovative educational environments to support learning for the 21st century has attracted the interest of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development at the global governance level and at the national policy level internationally. This article draws on global, European and Australasian research and data from a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Parents
Kivelä, Mikael – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2023
Non-traditional learning spaces have been a trending topic and investment opportunity during the last decade. Ostensibly their novel material settings promote active and flexible learning. This article traces the furniture layouts utilized in curricular teaching during three semesters across the first five years of use of an 80-seat…
Descriptors: Furniture, Space Utilization, Universities, Foreign Countries
Fride Haram Klykken – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This paper investigates the material complexity and relational emergence of 'teaching'. Reporting on a video-based ethnographic study of an upper secondary classroom in Norway, the paper centres on the following research questions: Which material-discursive practices 'matter' in upper secondary teaching situations, and how are participants' bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Friendship
Nicholas E. Roseth – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2025
In every music classroom, nonverbal forces--including immediacy, ensemble setups, and teacher use of space--may impact student outcomes. Immediacy refers to a collection of nonverbal behaviors that communicate psychological closeness. The purpose of this survey study was to examine secondary choir teachers' (N = 137) self-reported immediacy…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Nonverbal Communication
MacDonald, Katrina; Diamond, Fleur; Wilkinson, Jane; Sum, Nicola; Longmuir, Fiona; Kaukko, Mervi – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
This paper analyses the move by an Australian university faculty to a new building featuring open plan and alternative workspaces. Through the lens of the theory of practice architectures, the paper examines how the new built spaces both enabled and constrained the professional learning practices of academics. Drawing on a case study of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Work Environment
Song, Yang – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
The refashioning of popular cultural resources has become a salient strategy for the construction of "hyper-real" spaces of cultural consumption worldwide. Taking Lefebvre's triadic model of space as the anchorage, this study proposes an analytical framework to examine the affective production of space. Ethnographic fieldwork was…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Television, Popular Culture, Sense of Community
Antonio Giner-Gomis; Marcos Jesús Iglesias-Martínez; Inés Lozano-Cabezas – Qualitative Research in Education, 2024
Environments or learning spaces in school classrooms contribute to the improvement of educational processes. Specifically, in the Early Childhood Education, teachers can design learning spaces, which fosters an environment of safety and autonomy for the students of the Early Childhood Education. This study explores the teachers' narratives…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Child Safety, Teacher Attitudes
Oliveras-Ortiz, Yanira; Bouillion, Dalane E.; Asbury, Lizzy – Journal of Education, 2021
Through a conceptual framework focused on student engagement, this article explores students' perceptions about the impact the design of learning environments has on student engagement. The current mixed-methods study was conducted at two Texas replacement elementary schools where the entire learning community, all teachers, administrators, staff,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Chen Yaari; Yotam Hod; Ornit Sagy – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
As educational systems design and build new spaces aimed for learning in the digital age, small group configurations around large screens have become a highly popular spatial feature in classrooms and libraries. In this paper, we introduce the idea of intermediate indexing as occurring in the space between the knot of intertwined resources at the…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Interaction, Classroom Environment, Learning
Antti Saari; Mathias Decuypere – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
The study of topological policy cultures highlights a tendency in policy spaces to undo the effects of topographical and cultural distances and differences. In contemporary education policy trends, such traits are present in the attempts to reimagine classroom spaces. A case in point is Future Classroom Lab (FCL), a physical classroom concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Topography, School Space, Space Utilization
Tony Cawthon; R. Bradley Johnson; Dena Kniess – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2025
Creating a sense of community and belonging for students is a desired outcome for residence life staff. This qualitative study explored how campus housing directors defined a sense of belonging and how they implemented curriculum, programs, and services to enhance residents' sense of connection and community. Utilizing semi-structured interviews,…
Descriptors: Sense of Belonging, College Students, College Housing, Administrator Attitudes
Reinius, Hanna; Korhonen, Tiina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Learning Environments Research, 2021
This exploratory case study examined the kinds of activity that a 'deskless school" (i.e., flexible physical school spaces) engenders among pupils and teachers. We also considered the meaning and significance that pupils and teachers attach to various features of the school, as well as the associated action possibilities. The data were…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Classroom Design, School Space, Space Utilization