A well-designed, safe, and responsive environment is an essential ingredient in learning.
Many of the parents forget to observe the environment while choosing a learning place, school’s or home’s pleasant environment is the main pillar which develops an interest in learning.
In our previous blog, we already discussed the importance of the environment. Learning is the process of absorbing new information in a meaningful way and putting it to use but if the environment of the place where the learner learns, is not appealing learning cannot take place the way it should take.
Likewise, Hawkins and Overbaugh (1988) studied exemplary Japanese and American schools finding increased learning in schools designed to reflect community values. In these schools, cleanliness and care emerged as the most important factors.
When we shortlist a learning place for our kids we must make sure that the building is well maintained, classes are appealing and artwork should be inspiring to many colors and over designing can leave a negative effect on brains.
. Accordingly, in computer classrooms, technological equipment, and classroom settings can enhance psychological comfort and the learning environment. With this in mind, seemingly subtle differences in interior design/layout, as opposed to the larger matters of architectural design and floor-plan, were assumed to influence the perceptual performance of design students. To verify this hypothesis, the atmospheric attributes of two computer classrooms used to teach 3Dmax and AutoCAD drawing programs at the Department of Furniture and Decoration of Technical Education Faculty at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, were tested by eliciting responses to ten bipolar semantic differential items on a Likert-style scale. Results showed that differences in the environmental settings of each classroom had an important influence on the perceptual evaluations of students.
All these research works indicate the importance of an appealing environment.
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