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Chloe Wasendorf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Soft rot diseases cause crop losses all over the world. These losses can have large economic impacts and threaten international food security. Soft rot bacterial pathogens produce pectolytic enzymes that attack the pectin around plant cells resulting in smelly, wet, and mushy tissue maceration. Once symptoms are visible, the crop cannot be used or…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Genetics, Plants (Botany), Microbiology
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Erin Keith; Carolyn Clarke; Allison Tucker – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Learning spaces in higher education are fraught with colonial barriers such as teacher-centered, front facing, stark, feelingless, and unwelcoming classrooms that diminish students' feelings of well-being. For pre-service teachers, these are also the types of classrooms that they often inherit as they foray into the profession. Three Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Decolonization
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Özyildirim, Gülnar – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
Understanding the educational environment and effectively regulating it in consistent with educational objectives is an important factor in facilitating teaching and a crucial ability for the teachers. Investigating the perception of 12 classroom teachers at four elementary schools about their classroom environment, this study aims to reveal the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Eickholt, Jesse; Johnson, Matthew R.; Seeling, Patrick – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: Practical active learning stations (PALSs)-equipped classrooms function similar to prototypical active learning classrooms (ALCs). They support student collaboration and active learning pedagogies but at a fraction of the cost. Background: Active learning pedagogies and active learning technology are revitalizing STEM education and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Computer Uses in Education, Classroom Design
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Collyer, Edward – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
Independent work and silent classrooms appear to be part of a wider discourse adopted by some schools across England and promoted as good practice by England's Education Secretary. This paper explores the effect of grouped and individual seating on the engagement of four boys in small group sessions teaching the English Language GCSE. Observations…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Males
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Nichols, T. Philip; Coleman, James Joshua – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
The authors examined how the spaces and structures of literacy classrooms were organized, inhabited, and felt by teachers and students in a new project-based high school. The authors attended specifically to the political valence of these feelings: how educators characterized certain spatial arrangements (modular furniture and flexible seating)…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Classroom Environment, High Schools, Classroom Design
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Holec, Victoria; Marynowski, Richelle – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Active learning has experienced a recent resurgence with the advent of specialized active learning classrooms. While the fundamental theory behind active learning is anything but new, a relatively recent finding is that active learning pedagogies thrive in suitable active learning classrooms. To date, studies of active learning have focused on…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Classroom Environment
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Beaudry, Sharon – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
Active learning has been a growing trend in education for decades based on its impact on student learning and success. As such, schools, colleges, and universities have invested resources into expanding this teaching approach, including active learning classrooms. But why have some schools been successful at rapidly growing their active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design, Higher Education
Kentucky Department of Education, 2022
Kentucky Administrative Regulation 705 KAR 4:231, general program standards for secondary career and technical education (CTE) programs, states that all CTE facilities shall be of adequate size to accommodate the work of their respective program(s). The material within this resource guide is designed to aid school administrators, teachers, boards…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
Mazzer, Katherine – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this case study was to analyze the school culture of an arts-integrated, urban middle school in Richmond, Virginia. Four teacher interview questions and classroom and school observations were conducted based on two contributing factors in shaping school culture (visions and values and physical environment). The findings of this…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, School Culture, Art Education
Adam P. Parisi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Little has changed about the physical properties of public schooling in the United States since the industrial revolution--desks, rows, and teachers at the front of the room (McCoy, 2007). Foote (2019) has argued there is no better way to create a more modern learning space than to do a complete redesign. Given the dramatic redefinition of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Environment, Classroom Environment, Teacher Attitudes
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Swinnerton, Bronwen – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
This paper focuses on a UK higher education institution (HEI) which redesigned three lecture theatres as 'Collaborative Lecture Theatres' (CLTs). Using Radcliffe's framework for designing and evaluating learning spaces and using his three related components; pedagogy, space and technology it will explore how the redesigned rooms (space) and the…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Interior Space, Classroom Design, Technology Integration
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Szpytma, Cezary; Szpytma, Magdalena – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The present educational paradigm, fundamentally unchanged since the 19th century, does not meet 21st-century educational needs. This paradigm shift must be accompanied by a strong educational architecture that fosters the skills needed for 21st-century success including creativity and cultural awareness. The present study investigates the primary…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Case Studies, Elementary Schools, Social Change
Pamela Erin Swofford – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of flexible seating in southwest Missouri classrooms. Four research questions guided the study based on the conceptual framework of Eric Jensen. The work of Jensen (2005) was selected as the conceptual framework due to his focus on the use of movement and how it impacts the brain. The research…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Design, Elementary School Teachers, Principals
Kathryn E. Rivera – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While the physical environment is widely understood as being a critical consideration for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), limited research is available to guide the design for these specialized classrooms. A two-phase case study explored teacher's perceptions of the classroom experience at a state-funded charter elementary school for…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, COVID-19, Pandemics
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