Is It Possible Open Classrooms Are an Old-Fashioned Innovation? An Example from the USA

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Until 1950s, teaching-learning process was teacher-centered and based on listening. From the end of the 1950s, open classrooms have emerged as a reform movement by the impact of the progressivism education philosophy. Open classrooms are not divided by walls and doors, and there is no evidence that implementation has been tried in Turkey. Additionally, there is no information in Turkish literature about open classrooms. In this study it was aimed that contributing Turkish literature about open classrooms and determining views of elementary school teachers which are performing open classes, about this implementation in ABD. The phenomenological method was used which is the one of the qualitative research methods. The data have been obtained via semi-structured interviews and were analyzed with the inductive content analysis. The teacher’s views were collected under the three titles: student, teacher and learning environment. The teachers were generally agree that, there are positive effects on students of open classrooms, besides they had expressed that there are some difficulties in terms of teacher and learning environment.

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Open classroom , open school , open classroom from the USA

Mersin University Journal Of The Faculty Of Education

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Mersin University Journal Of The Faculty Of Education