Learning outside the Classroom
@article{Sommer1974LearningOT, title={Learning outside the Classroom}, author={Robert Sommer and Franklin D. Becker}, journal={The School Review}, year={1974}, volume={82}, pages={601 - 607} }
One myth of contemporary education is that most learning takes place in a classroom and depends upon the physical presence of a teacher, printed textbooks, and "proper motivation." But it is possible to distinguish between learning environments-which are characterized by a profusion of interesting, novel, and useful objects designed to be manipulated, smelled, measured, and arranged-and the typical American classroom, which is intended as a teaching environment.
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