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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
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Yanira Oliveras – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2025
This study synthesizes findings from two complementary qualitative research projects to explore how physical learning environments influence both instructional practices and student outcomes. The first study examined teachers' perspectives on the role of classroom design in implementing social and emotional learning (SEL), while the second…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Social Emotional Learning, Cooperation
Tommaso Bardelli, Contributor; Sam Johnson, Contributor; Tammy Ortiz, Contributor; Elizabeth Austin, Contributor; Laura Brown, Contributor; Catharine Bond Hill, Contributor; Sindy Lopez, Contributor; Molly McGowan, Contributor; Amy Mielke, Contributor; Ess Pokornowski, Contributor – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
On September 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, commonly known as the 1994 crime bill. The most far-reaching piece of criminal justice legislation Congress ever passed, the bill incentivized states to pass harsher sentencing laws and build more prisons. Among a slate of punitive and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Higher Education, Correctional Institutions, Educational Facilities
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Ümran Sahin – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2025
The purpose of this research is to explore prospective teachers' perspectives on the physical arrangement of an ideal classroom as a learning environment. A phenomenological design was used in this study to reveal the views of prospective teachers about the components and features of an ideal, desired classroom environment. Fifteen teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction