This critical qualitative study explores refugee women and higher education (HE), an understudied area, to establish a foundation within HE to trouble refugee women's educational exclusion. Despite 79.5 million refugees globally (UNHCR, 2020), mixed responses persist, particularly amid authoritarianism in the U.S. evidenced by decreased…

Child care centers can be great institutions of learning and caring, if everyone pays attention to some important dimensions that also make them reasonable places to live. Children need a place where they have full use of their bodies and senses and enough freedom to take advantage of the variety of life, where they can find or invent the spaces…

Electronic technology has created a revolution in portability of information, documentation, and communication. We are now able to connect with people, information, organizations, and merchandise from anywhere at practically any time. As electronically fabricated environments replace actual physical surroundings, however, we become displaced.…

The author briefly reports some significant findings concerning the impact of the environment on human perception, behavior, and performance, touching particularly on color, seating arrangement and crowding, and music and noise. Implications for schools are discussed. (PGD)

Results of this study indicate that college students' perception of the credibility of faculty members was enhanced by the presence of professionally related and aesthetic objects (plaques, books, paintings, etc.) in the faculty members' offices. Communicative implications of the findings are discussed. (PD)

This booklet presents five activities that deal with nonverbal communication. The booklet outlines instructional objectives for the student: to describe nonverbal communication and identify at least three examples; to explain why the face is an important source of information; to recognize and describe environmental factors that influence…

The influence of various forms of homelessness on children's development is discussed. The role of personal space in development is considered, particularly in regard to the settings in which homeless children spend much of their time. (PCB)

College students seated outdoors and alone on a university campus were approached by a same-sexed "invader" who sat nine inches or 18 inches away. The "invader" asked permission before sitting down or said nothing. Findings agree with equilibrium theory. Presented as the 1976 conference of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.…

Investigated the effects of selected spatial-environmental conditions on counselor and counselee interview behaviors. Rated excerpts from initial sessions. Results indicated significant effects of distance on counselor concreteness, lighting on counselor communication of cognitive sets and distance on counselee affective self-disclosure in later…

Proxemic behavior was unobtrusively observed in open and enclosed environments with concurrent variation of the approach of subject to confederate or confederate to subject. The sex of subject and the sex of confederate were also varied, with nesting on the sex of confederate variable. A robust environment effect indicated that personal space is…

It is hypothesized that subjects who are highly anomic will demonstrate less anxiety and higher nonperson orientation than normal subjects will when personal space is invaded. Fifty-six pretested subjects classified as either anomic (14 males, 14 females) or normal (14 males, 14 females) were placed in one of two interview conditions: personal…

The marriage between the method, theory, and content of traditional architectural education and the social sciences is discussed. It is suggested that the architecture student, the profession, and the social scientists need to work cooperatively in the teaching of architecture in the context of the design studio. (MLW)

This book presents an analysis of the concepts of privacy, crowding, territory, and personal space, with regard to human behavior. Intended as an introduction to the environment-and-behavior field for undergraduate and graduate students, as a preliminary guide to research and theory for researchers, and as a model for integrating environmental and…

Verbal and nonverbal dimensions of communication are a vital part of competitive group discussion. Specific nonverbal elements that have been found useful in competitive group discussion include environment, proxemics, kinesics, objectics, and chronemics. For example, equalizing arrangements for the discussion in the best area of a room enhances…

Defining stress as a "misfit" between individual needs and environmental attributes, this paper reviews research on areas where the designed environment, on both a schoolwide and a classroom level, interacts with the educational process. These interactions are considered from the perspective of stresses imposed on both teachers and students. The…