Plans to Pedagogy Activity Report 2019: What impact does ‘innovative’ furniture have on student engagement and teacher practices?

Authors

Julia Morris, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Wesley Imms, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Report

Publisher

Edith Cowan University

School

School of Education

RAS ID

46926

Comments

Morris, J. E. & Imms, W. (2020). Plans to pedagogy activity report 2019: What impact does ‘innovative’ furniture have on student engagement and teacher practices? Edith Cowan University.

Abstract

Phase One of this project, conducted during the 2019 academic year, used an A-B-A withdrawal design to rotate (terms 2, 3 and 4) the furniture in five primary school classrooms1 from ‘innovative’ to ‘traditional’ furniture arrangements2. Three-weekly repeated measures were taken across the year of (1) student perceptions of their cognitive and behavioural engagement, (2) teacher actions in these classrooms, and (3) photographs by students of their preferred furniture, with annotations explaining this preference. Once-a-term measures included (4) teachers completing a Teacher Mind Frames survey, and (5) teachers participating in a structured interview with the researchers...

Additional Information

Project information available at:

Spatial Learning @ Vasse: What impact does ‘innovative’ furniture have on student engagement and teacher practices?

Related Publications

Morris, J. E. & Imms, W. (2023). Plans to pedagogy activity report phase two: What impact does ‘innovative’ furniture have on student engagement and teacher practices? Edith Cowan University.

https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/2187/