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Usman, Yunusa Dangara; Madudili, Chinyere Geraldine – Online Submission, 2019
Stakeholders in Nigeria have raised concerns over the trend of poor academic performance of students in all categories of schools Nigeria. Foremost concern has hitherto been narrowed on the quality of teachers, teaching process, school administrative efficacy and the apathetic attitude of students to their studies due to distractions that impede…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, School Buildings
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Altenburger, Elke – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
This multiple case study (Flyvbjerg, 2011; Stake, 2006) of three new rural high school libraries, located in two states in the U.S. Midwest, and the school communities they serve is part of a long-term research agenda grounded in a critical perspective (Anderson, 1989). The study is devoted to deepening the understanding of the relationships…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, Adolescents, Student Experience
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Kariippanon, Katharina E.; Cliff, Dylan P.; Okely, Anthony D.; Parrish, Anne-Maree – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
This article presents the perceptions and experiences of 12 school principals, 35 teachers and 85 students on the influences and processes used by eight Australian government primary and secondary schools to transform traditionally arranged classrooms into flexible learning spaces. Characterised by a variety of furniture and layout options, these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices, Furniture
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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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Awan, Muhammad Naeem – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2015
This study aimed to find out the situation of physical condition of labs, equipment in labs, and use of labs during instruction, and problems faced by science teachers in conducting practicals. A questionnaire for science teachers was used as a tool of research. Eighty (80) schools from four districts of administrative division Gujranwala of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Laboratories, Laboratory Equipment, Science Instruction
Theisens, Henno; Benavides, Francisco; Dumont, Hanna – PEB Exchange, 2008
Designing school buildings to respond to change is not a new idea. But perhaps what is different today is the kind and degree of change which we have to anticipate. The OECD is carrying out projects that can help in the planning and design of future educational facilities--exploring trends in education and studying innovative learning…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, One Parent Family, Birth Rate, Lifelong Learning