Open-plan classrooms don't work with closed and archaic ideas It was disappointing to read the recent article about the apparent failure of open-plan classrooms. Unfortunately, newspaper articles about education tend to be based on the 19th-century paradigm of schools being places in which students acquire information, en masse, from class teachers, and this article was no exception. Part of the article was based on some unspecified research, and the author was quoted as saying that open-plan classrooms "are definitely not suitable for critical listening activities with young kids," This is stating the obvious, because open-plan classrooms are predicated on...
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