diane ("Just wait 'til you're a teacher: once that door is closed, you can do
whatever you want..." ah. It echoes still.)
At 10:51 AM 10/28/97, Stephen Eric Van Hoose wrote:
>Peter, you wrote:
>
>The first high school I taught in
>had an open classroom design which was justified in terms of how it would
>end restrictions on how we think about learning, disenclose our minds,
>promote open dialogue, etc. Yet teachers did their best to construct as
>many barriers as possible between their class and others. Administrators
>used the structure to keep tabs on teachers with "bad attitudes."
>
>
>With the new development of the open classroom school, why is it that all the
>teachers tried to construct as many barriers as possible to create for
>themselves "new rooms" ? My fiancee, an El. Ed. major at the College of
>Saint Rose, also mentioned something to me about how teachers created rooms
>of their own by putting up barriers and such. She shared with me a little
>fact that these schools were built around the ideas of team teaching, but
>yet, teachers did not want to be part of this method of teaching. Is this
>true? What are some of the underlying problems to this spatial arrangement of
>the open classroom? What are some of the current philosophies on education
>these days and where it might be heading in the future?
>
>--STephen Van Hoose
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
Ani Difranco
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university of british columbia
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