A Case Study on the Changes in Classroom Space Perception of Classroom Drama Participants

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Seung Ji Yang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Space Perception ◽  
Classroom Space

scholarly journals Improving Daylight Availability in Heritage Buildings: A Case Study of Below-grade Classrooms in Tehran

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-133
Author(s):  
Kamyar Soleimani ◽  
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Nastaran Abdollahzadeh ◽  
Zahra Sadat Zomorodian ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Natural Light ◽  
Classroom Space ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Visual Tasks ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Heritage Building ◽  
Daylight Performance

Refurbished heritage buildings usually lack in meeting the required standards defined for the new function especially when reused as educational buildings. Therefore, they are usually equipped with different post-occupancy retrofit strategies to achieve an acceptable level of environmental quality and energy demand. Daylight quality and the distribution of natural light is a critical issue in educational spaces, given that the low level of illuminance in classrooms can decrease students' performance and disrupt visual tasks. In this study, daylight performance of below-grade south-facing classrooms in a heritage building in Tehran, Iran is investigated by implementing 57 different daylighting retrofit strategies using climate-based daylight simulations, in relation to the metric Useful Daylight Illuminance 300-3000lux (UDI-Autonomous). The research proposes the use of reflectors on the interior ceiling and exterior side of the windows (on the ground) to achieve the highest result possible. Although, applying these two systems individually, can boost the spatial distribution of daylight to 75 % and 71%, respectively, the combination of them provide users with UDI-Autonomous in 99% of the classroom space for more than half of the occupancy time.

scholarly journals A CASE STUDY ON BLENDED LEARNING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Harris ◽  
Charles Park
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Learning Problem ◽  
Thermal Energy Conversion ◽  
Classroom Space ◽  
Online Lectures ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning

This paper explores a case study of implementing blended learning in a third-year engineering course. In “Mechanical and Thermal Energy Conversion Processes”, blended learning was implemented by flipping the classroom (i.e. reversing the roles of lectures and homework) for selected units of the course. While flipping an entire course can be a significant undertaking, it can be much easier to take a blended approach and only flip lectures on selected topics. Many studies on flipped classroom learning have focused on the production of online lectures and active learning methods; often these case studies have overlooked the mechanisms to bring homework into the classroom. In this case study, homework was adapted into a variety of in-class activities, composed of hands-on learning, problem solving, and classroom discussions. In addition, a variety of classroom space types were used to conduct these activities. In this paper, the successes, challenges, and lessons learned for each type of activity and classroom space are discussed. Strategies for student engagement and acceptance of blended learning are also discussed.

scholarly journals Assessing the Building’s Developments on the Human Perception: The Case Study of Imam Al-Hussein Shrine in Karbala, Iraq

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Ali B. Al-Furaty ◽  
Ammar S. Ashour
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Current Problem ◽  
Space Perception ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Outer Wall ◽  
Steel Columns ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Orientation Movement ◽  
Human Sense

This paper investigates the implications of buildings’ developments of Imam Hussein Holy Shrine in Karbala, Iraq. It is questioning the space perception from within normal and expert human experience. The investigation spans a decade of reflections since the new shrine development accomplished. The ratio between mass and void have been changed significantly and thus led to alterations in viewing angles, inclusion, visual axis’s, orientation, movement, and human sense of scale. Those developments were encompassing, the addition of a new floor to the existing outer wall building, adding huge steel columns, covering the open-to-sky courtyard of the shrine, and extending the old boundaries of the shrine outwardly 10 meters using arched floors.The purpose is to tackle the current problem of how the shrine’s developments have affected the space perception, hierarchical order of space, and the induced new sensual spatial activities, such as eating, sleeping, and gathering. This paper therefore aims to address the current question of how the shrine’s developments have changed the individual’s experience in perceiving the inner spaces and other building’s components. It was hypothesized that an analysis of the perception of Holy Shrine of Imam Hussain's developments can provide clear answers of the urban changes, which were occurred. The findings showed that the space inclusion has increased while the viewing angles, visual axis’s, continuous movement, and human scale have reduced. Further work will include the influences of the socio-economic and environmental factors in relation to the existing spaces and activities in the analysis and compare the findings with other similar shrine cases, like the Holy Shrine of Imam Al-Abbas.

scholarly journals A Circle of Learning: The impact of a narrative multilingualism approach on in-service teachers’ literacy pedagogies

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Mendelowitz ◽  
Harriet Davis
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Narrative Pedagogy ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Classroom Space ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Valuable Role

This paper explores the impact of a narrative multilingualism approach on in-service primary school teachers who attended the Advanced Certi"cate of Education (ACE) Languages course at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009. The teachers wrote their own language narratives and were required to implement language narrative work in their classrooms. The paper is a case study of three teachers’ implementation of multilingual narrative pedagogy, and explores the ways in which each teacher translates this pedagogy into their specific contexts. Theoretically, the paper attempts to deepen and extend narrative multilingualism as an approach to language teaching. The notions of uptake and pedagogical translation are explored at various levels, namely, the teachers’ uptake of a multilingual narrative approach and the learners’ uptake. The most striking aspect of the data, across all teachers, is the process and dynamics unleashed in the classroom space. The process of sharing language narratives reconfigured dynamics in the classroom and opened up the classroom space for teachers and learners. The interventions that the pedagogy of narrative multilingualism afforded enabled the validation of linguistic diversity. In a society where xenophobia and linguicism is prevalent, such interventions can play a valuable role in changing attitudes and teaching learners to value difference. Furthermore, previously silenced learners found their voices and participated more in class activities.

scholarly journals Perceived and lived space in the modern city. A case study for Akadimia Platonos neighborhood, Athens, Greece

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-92
Author(s):  
Georgios LAMPROPOULOS ◽  
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Yorgos PHOTIS ◽  
Maria PIGAKI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Space Perception ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
Geometric Space ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis ◽  
The City

The main objective of this paper is to perform a spatial analysis of everyday life experiences by enriching a socio-spatial approach within the boundaries of Akadimia Platonos neighborhood, in the city of Athens. It investigates the convergences and divergences that are observed between two different manifestations of space, as they have been approached through Henri Lefebvre’s social theory of space, the perceived space and the lived space. Mainly, the designed-geometric space, enhanced with all those relationships programmed for social reproduction, creates an experience for its users. Does this lived experience, that is expected to be experienced, actually correspond to reality? In the methodological framework proposed, perceived space (as spatial practices) is examined through the space syntax analysis of the study area, while lived space (as representational spaces) is accessed through questionnaire interviews, which examine the space perception of residents, workers, visitors, passers-by, using it.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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