The 'Geography' of Classroom Learning

Too little attention may have been paid in the past to the importance of classroom layout in reducing or increasing children's learning difficulties. Although the approach described by Deborah Lucas, educational psychologist, London borough of Croydon, and Gary Thomas, senior lecturer, Oxford Polytechnic, is not a panacea for learning difficulties, both authors believe matching classroom 'geography' to teaching aims and styles may prevent certain difficulties from arising.