Teaching Photography, 2nd Edition

section 3

Managing Education

Untitled, Iceland Water; by Acacia Johnson, student of Steven B Smith & Ann Fessler

 

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The Learning Environment

 

 

“The best learning takes place on a log, with the teacher on one end and the student on the other.”

Socrates

 

 

There are two important parts of the environment within the classroom. Though it is easy to define the classroom environment as its physical realities, the psychological aspects of the environment are also very important. The classroom environment is made up of people and things. Thus we must deal with both the physical and human limits of the classroom setting.

When we look at the ...