Re: Ref wanted: Sitting classroom arrangements

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:52:51 +0200

At 21.53 -0500 99-08-19, nate wrote:
>Ken's
>story of the bolted down desks came to mind, but was unable to find the
>message.

It was a very short one, but an interesting story. The name of Lillian
Weber might be a clue to finding further information, or perhaps Ken will
know?

Eva

>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:00:16 -0700 (MST)
>Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:03:10 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ken Goodman <kgoodman who-is-at U.Arizona.EDU>
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: The survival of settings
>
>
>Lillian Weber, a great educator, who was at City University, developed a
>program she called Open Corridors. She worked in NY City schools with bolt
>down
>desks in rows in very old buildings. But these buildings had wide corridors
>with very high ceilings. So the teachers made maximum use f the corridors
>to do
>the group work and projects the inflexible classrooms would not permit. Man=
y
>teachers believe there's always a way to do good teaching.
>Ken Goodman