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The ‘Geography’ of Classroom Learning
Author(s) -
Lucas Deborah,
Thomas Gary
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8578.1990.tb00341.x
Subject(s) - borough , panacea (medicine) , mathematics education , pedagogy , sociology , learning styles , psychology , political science , medicine , public administration , alternative medicine , pathology
Too little attention may have been paid in the past to the importance of classroom layout in reducing or increasing children's learning difficulties. Although the approach described by Deborah Lucas, educational psychologist, London borough of Croydon, and Gary Thomas, senior lecturer, Oxford Polytechnic, is not a panacea for learning difficulties, both authors believe matching classroom ‘geography’ to teaching aims and styles may prevent certain difficulties from arising.