Education and spaces.

In the classroom the proper use of the spaces is fundamental to the labor of the teacher and cognitive and social process of the students. The traditional conception of a classroom is a teacher centered place where the student are paying attention to the teacher’s lecture, but, as we can see, this model is not the best of all kind of classroom and lectures. Next, some tips of how to use properly the spaces with a class.

Cooperative job and integration in the work area is so important as in an enterprise, as Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote about how spaces are fundamental in a work area said “to maximize the amount of contact among people, you really ought to put the most valuable staff members at the center of the room”(60). In this case, the most valuable staff members are the student, so they must be integrated with the environment, in this case, with the classroom. Use it as it should be, helping to the student to learn and associate the specific subjects with their own life, sharing with him and giving the opportunity to share ideas with his or her classmates. The class should not be just in a specific classroom, also can be in a lab, a library or in the schoolyard.

Exclude a student for his behavior or his academics results is a tradition that must be ended, because as Jane Jacobs wrote when she was comparing a city with a human body, “…they seldom aid in the city areas around them, as in theory are supposed to. These amputated areas typically develop galloping gangrene”(5-7). In others words, trying to separate and exclude student is the same as in societies where the people is afraid and confused, therefore, act violently. The school is the basement of the society and we can see on how the students build up their spaces and attitude on how the future societies will look like.