As globalisation changes the sociocultural architecture of urban areas, adolescents increasingly interact with different sets values and worldviews, which can be a potential cause conflict anxiety. To date, there is little empirical research on how perceive experience social cohesion in superdiverse metropolitan context such as Brussels Capital Region. In this study, we elaborate relationship b...

Orientation of classrooms is an important challenge in architectural design of a school. However, there is a lack of appropriate knowledge about influence of orientation on students’ perception of daylighting in classrooms. This paper presents a questionnaire survey that was conducted to compare students’ perception and satisfaction with daylighting in classrooms of a high school in...

Modern classrooms are complex socio-technical spaces where multiple heterogeneous legacy tools and novel technologies coexist. The design and the study of such technological ecosystems (or of single technologies that have to integrate into one such ecosystem) is still under-researched, and we lack established conceptual tools to understand how a learning scenario is orchestrated across such het...

critical pedagogy (cp), as a poststructuralist educational movement, challenges the asymmetrical, power-over nature of classroom discourse and seeks to accommodate multivocality in the classroom and in the society. this study probed the discourse architecture of efl classrooms in iran. specifically, it aimed to explore to what extent iranian efl classrooms have stepped away from the teacher-dom...

We assessed the quality of center child care relationships with adults and peers for 414 children (ages 14 to 54 months). Classrooms were classified by ratio and group size provisions of the Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements (FIDCR) and by the Early Childhood and Infant and Toddler Environmental Rating Scales. Children cared for in classrooms meeting FIDCR ratios were more likely to be ...

this study investigates and compares the efficacy of differentiated instruction and traditional-based instruction on enhancing iranian students’ reading comprehension. eight elementary, intermediate, and advanced classrooms from 1 language institute were chosen, and based on their performance on the pretests were further divided into 4 control and 4 treatment groups. flexible grouping, tiered i...

Method: Sixteen Kindergarten and Year 1 teachers (four from enclosed classrooms, three from double classrooms, six from triple classrooms, and three from a Kindergarten-to-Year 6 classroom) completed a questionnaire about their teaching background and style, the demographics of the children in their class, how they perceive the classroom listening environment, what internal and external noise s...

Children are more impaired than adults by unfavorable listening conditions such as reverberation and noise. Nevertheless, the acoustical conditions in classrooms often do not fit the specific needs of young listeners. This field study aimed to analyze effects of classroom reverberation on reading abilities, annoyance due to indoor noise, and school attitudes in second graders. Performance and q...

conclusions the layout of whiteboard in classrooms can be effective in causing student’s neck pain. in this study, the suitable height of installation of whiteboard was determined and it is recommended to be used in classrooms. background the mismatch between equipments and anthropometric dimensions of users is one of the issues that can be effective on development of musculoskeletal disorders ...