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Tina M. Budzise-Weaver; Pauline Melgoza; Sarel Lavy; Dhiraj K. S. K. Saraogi – Learning Environments Research, 2024
This paper examines the study space preferences of college students in their respective university colleges. The study utilized principles of visual ethnography to collect participatory photographic data. Student participants completed three tasks, a demographic survey, participant-supplied photographs, and an exit interview. We recruited from the…
Descriptors: College Students, College Environment, Preferences, Space Utilization
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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
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Yu-Ching Yeh; Mei-Huey Hsieh; Zih-Syuan Yang; Mei-Mei Chang; Hsin-Jung Chien; Wei-Lun Hong; Hsiao-Hsin Tsai – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Well-designed physical spaces and appropriate equipment are crucial for enhancing the quality of care and education for infants and toddlers. Four key areas were examined hygiene and safety, learning and development, space and facility management, and sustainability. The study sampled childcare centers based on their geographic distribution and…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care Centers, Facilities
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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
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Szpunar, Ruth; Bradley, Eric – College & Research Libraries, 2023
From 2016 to 2020, ten smaller schools in one regional library consortium participated in a user needs assessment project. This article documents the process for implementing a collaborative user needs assessment by utilizing the shared interest and enthusiasm of a team of librarians to create a consortial toolkit. The toolkit supplied direction…
Descriptors: User Needs (Information), Needs Assessment, Consortia, Ethnography
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Mart, Mehmet; Waite, Sue – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Intentional approaches to designing and structuring learning environments apply outdoors as well as indoors, but the value of freedom and unrestricted play outside is well known. However, several factors influence teachers' provision of freedom within outdoor activities, and it is important to reflect on these variables and appropriate degrees of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Cultural Differences, Public Policy
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Chan, Tak Cheung – Educational Planning, 2022
This article is on the development of the School Facility I.Q. Inventory (SFIQI), an instrument to assess the extent of knowledge a school administrator possesses in delivering their assignment to manage his/her school building. The instrument was designed based on the current literature. The validity of the instrument was verified by a panel of…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Facility Inventory, School Buildings, Facilities Management
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Palme', Hannah; Skinner, Daniel; Bode, Sara; Irwin, Mary Kay – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: From a range of perspectives, scholars have demonstrated the value of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in recent decades, but few studies have examined the logistics of establishing SBHCs. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 hospital and 6 school employees involved in a network of SBHCs. After common themes…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Schools, School Personnel, Health Personnel
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Sarah D. DeVille-Holly – Journal of Access Services, 2024
This article explores the library space needs and wants of graduate and undergraduate students at a medium-size state University in Southwest Florida. The researcher conducted a sequential explanatory mixed methods study in which they administered a survey to all currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students at the university and followed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Library Facilities, Space Utilization, Learner Engagement
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Walan, Susanne; Gericke, Niklas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This case study aimed to investigate teachers' reflections on the transfer of makerspace activities into classrooms. Primary and secondary STEM teachers participated in a Continuous Professional Development programme about makerspaces. Data were collected in the form of written reflections and semi-structured interviews after the teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education, Faculty Development
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Wellenreiter, Benjamin R. – Middle School Journal, 2021
Hallways, cafeterias, buses, bathrooms, locker rooms, and other spaces in and around school property serve as venues for positive and negative social processes. Middle school educators can gain important insights into the adolescent world by exploring student perspectives of these spaces vital to middle school social experiences. Often unseen or…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Experience
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Mehta, Priya; Cox, Andrew – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2021
A recent focus in academic library design is as a third place: a home from home. Research has yet to interrogate what it means to be "at home,, and if academic libraries are treated like, and feel like home to students. Seamon's model provides a framework for understanding the qualities associated with homeness, across the five dimensions of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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Krajewski, Sabine; Khoury, Matthew – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2021
In this article, we argue that physical rooms cannot be replaced by virtual space without literally losing the student's body and that experimenting with rooms and active learning is imperative for improving and advancing students' learning. Our case study offers insight into a 'soft room experiment' without hard furniture or audio-visual…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Active Learning, Space Utilization, Higher Education
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González-Zamar, Mariana-Daniela; Jiménez, Luis Ortiz; Ayala, Adoración Sánchez – Education Sciences, 2021
In recent years, the changes experienced in the educational and social field have been reflected in the growing interest in defining how the attributes of the learning space affect students. This study seeks to determine the influence exerted by the design and organization of the university classroom on motivation and social interaction. The…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity, Classroom Design
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Swart, William; MacLeod, Ken – Education Sciences, 2021
Problem-based learning is the latest name for a teaching philosophy that is as old as Ancient Greece. Whether you call it Socratic Inquiry, case-based teaching, problem-based learning, interactive group learning, or "flipped" learning, the essential concept is to encourage the student to collaborate in applying their gained knowledge to…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Classroom Design, Space Utilization, Cooperative Learning
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