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ERIC Number: EJ965659
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0164-8527
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Breaking the Code: Changing Our Thinking about Children's Environments
Duncan, Sandra
Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, n200 p13-16 Jul-Aug 2011
It is the responsibility of educators and architects of classrooms to create spaces that promote positive relationships between people and their environments. Life in early childhood classrooms organizes and clusters around the relationships between adults, children, and the space they occupy. Classrooms become living systems, which experience fluidity and change over time. While some change can be attributed to architectural trends over time, there are smatterings of new thoughts--and the recession of previously influential ideas--that are significantly changing the way classrooms are designed. These new movements are breaking away from the traditionally accepted design codes. Today's early childhood teachers are in a unique position to break away from the status quo and traditional codes by creating environments that are harmonious with children's beauty. Rather than considering the classroom as the most important space in the center, today's code suggests that all the physical spaces are interrelated, tangible components of design that support relationships between adults and young children.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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