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Larsen, Dale; Wallace, Shane; Parker, Adriana; Pankl, Lis – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
Researchers in the Graduate and Undergraduate Services (GUS) department at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah designed and created a collaborative service interaction space to alleviate symptoms of library anxiety. This plan led to several iterations of purchase and renovation proposals. After a lengthy design period, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Anxiety, Change
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Sund, Louise; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Öhman, Marie – Cogent Education, 2019
Social studies have often been explored as dis-embodied which results in a limited view of what happens in the classroom. Based in Dewey's transactional view of embodied relationality, Todd's discussion on the liminality of pedagogical relationships and recent theoretical contributions into embodied learning and body pedagogics, the purpose is to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Human Body, Secondary School Teachers
Beckett, Lorna; Mohr, David; Verma, Akash; Hesla, Kevin – National Charter School Resource Center, 2019
Charter schools operate under an independent contract with an authorizer, which allows the school to operate with autonomy related to curriculum, staff, and budget. During the 2017-18 school year, charter schools across the United States served more than 3 million students, accounting for approximately 6 percent of all K-12 public school students.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Facilities, Educational Trends, Educational Demand
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Alzeer, Gergana – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper is concerned with the spatial experiences of Emirati higher education women students. It presents some of the unique ways they engaged with and appropriated their campus space. To understand and explore women's spatial experiences as manifested through their spatial practices, appropriation and emerging spaces, I conducted an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, School Space
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Sumsion, Jennifer; Harrison, Linda J.; Stapleton, Matthew – Journal of Pedagogy, 2018
In this article, we endeavour to think spatially about the texture of infants' everyday lives and their ways of 'doing' belonging in the babies' room in an Australian early childhood education and care centre. Drawing on data from a large, multiple case-study project, and on theorisations of space that reject Euclidean notions of space as empty,…
Descriptors: Infants, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Space Utilization
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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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Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse – Education Inquiry, 2021
This study highlights how 20 Swedish principals, school managers and architects involved in planning, construction and reconstruction of primary and secondary school buildings at regional, municipal and local levels represent good learning environments. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, the analysis focuses on how the stakeholders understand…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Innovation, Principals, Architecture
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Coleman, Claire; Luton, Jane – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
Empty spaces, open spaces, prefabricated buildings, disused school halls, patches of grass and suchlike have long been the teaching spaces of subjects such as Drama and Physical Education; likewise, ECE and Marae-based learning are other 'marginalised' domains of education in Aotearoa New Zealand today. Subjugated in the educational landscape,…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Early Childhood Education, Physical Education, Drama
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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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Finn, Roxanne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
An historical commitment to child-centred pedagogy notwithstanding, classrooms for an increasing diversity of young people are constituted by their constrained affordances for learning; a single teacher, configurations of tables and chairs, and digital resources. The remit of teaching in such confines perpetuates passivity, a one size fits all…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Diversity, Inclusion, Learning Processes
Kentucky Department of Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency that has spread across Kentucky affecting all age groups. Scientific knowledge about this novel virus continues to evolve. The following guidelines are based upon what is known about mitigating risks of transmission across the Commonwealth to protect all populations. Protecting students and staff…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Safety, Best Practices
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2020
Capital investment on community college campuses had grown increasingly tricky to calculate correctly even before the coronavirus pandemic, as enrollment fluctuated, more students took online courses and employer needs continuously changed. To date, COVID-19 hasn't radically altered anyone's planning. But with that added factor thrown into the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Community Colleges, Leadership Responsibility
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Youngs, Suzette; Loyd, Stacy – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2020
Learning to question power relationships, symbols of power, and how power is used and negotiated in children's literature through critical dialogue can support young readers to move toward a social justice mindset. The authors of this article share critical strategies and analytic tools to support teachers and readers to analyze types of power,…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Power Structure, Social Justice
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Thomas, Christopher L.; Pavlechko, Gary M.; Cassady, Jerrell C. – Learning Environments Research, 2019
Ball State University re-designed five classrooms--as part of an Interactive Learning Space (ILS) Initiative--to provide educators with learning spaces that could be used to implement and assess the effectiveness of student-centred instructional practices. The purpose of the current investigation was to explore how pedagogy implemented within ILSs…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Learner Engagement, Classroom Environment, Space Utilization
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Deed, Craig; Alterator, Scott – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2017
Evaluating informal learning spaces in higher education institutions needs to respond to the complex conceptual orientation underpinning their intention and design. This article outlines a model of participatory analysis that accounts for the conceptual complexity, lived experience and broad intentions of informal learning space. Further, the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Higher Education, Models, Educational Environment
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