Toward a Psychological Ecology of the Classroom

Wright, Herbert F.; Barker, Roger G.; Nall, Jack; Schoggen, Phil

doi:10.1080/00220671.1951.10881935

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“…The focus of the work of the ecological psychologists tended to shift over the years from an initial concern for the behavior stream of individuals and the settings that were encountered (see Barker 1963;Barker and Wright 1951;Wright 1967;Wright, Barker, Nall, and Schoggen 1951) to a concern for the setting itself (see Barker and Wright 1955;Barker 1968; and Gump's work cited below). In particular, Barker and Wright's (1951) initial observations of human behavior and study of behavioral specimen records prompted them to develop the concept of behavior settings as a means of relating that behavior to the physical milieu in which it occurred.…”

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The Activity Structure of Lesson Segments

Burns¹,

Anderson²

1987

Curriculum Inquiry

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Section: Behavior Settingsmentioning

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The Activity Structure of Lesson Segments

Burns¹,

Anderson²

1987

Curriculum Inquiry

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“…The consultation room is set up to host online consultations with a voluntary GP, for users who do not have or do not trust their local GP. A smaller room furnished with a comfortable armchair, located next to the health room, enables the nurse to offer NADA, 6 a type of acupuncture acknowledged for its beneficial effects to substance abuse treatments (see figure 2). On the first floor, a larger meeting room enables both physical and online meetings for social service providers to foster better cross-disciplinary collaborations.…”

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Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence

Pedersen,

Nielsen

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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For people in homelessness, access to social services may appear difficult and alienating, which often contributes to poor health and a risk of accelerated marginalization. Historically, day centres for people in homelessness have been characterized by an emphasis on providing refuge and momentary restitution, accommodating urgent basic needs. In this article, we present a case study of the design of a new day centre in Denmark that aspires to move beyond the historical place-for-being . Rather, the new day centre is to be a place-for-being-and-becoming , focusing on bridging the varied needs of people in homelessness with easy access to social services at the day centre. This article explores the creation of new behaviour settings along with the challenges and considerations in designing enabling spaces for people in societally marginalized positions, concurrently offering and supporting a sense of inclusion, the possibility to develop one’s agency and experience of lived citizenship. This article is part of the theme issue ‘People, places, things, and communities: expanding behaviour settings theory in the twenty-first century’.

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“…It stems only from the fact that every setting tends to bring about certain psychological habitats rather than others. [29] (pp. [189][190] Without disregarding individual agency, Barker & Wright emphasized the meaning and significance of the environment in relation to how people orient themselves, and what actions they engage in.…”

Section: Ecological Psychology: How the Built Environment Affords Cer...mentioning

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“…Hence, behavior settings are not to be comprehended as determining people's actions in a one-to-one manner, but rather as an indicator of the meaning of the environment in relation to possibilities for action or participation. Both Gibson's notion of affordances as well as Barker and Wright's notion of behavior setting can be criticized for not thoroughly integrating the subjective or historical aspects of the human lifeworld (see [29,33]). We are not blind to such criticisms, nor do we disregard individual agency as meaningful.…”

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Enabling Spaces; Rethinking Materiality and the Invitational Character of Institutional Environments

Nielsen¹,

Pedersen

2022

IJERPH

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This article explores how physical surroundings may be integrated as a supportive measure in social work efforts. Drawing on ecological psychology and the concept of liminality, the article presents a case study of Kofoed’s School (KS), a social institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. In recent years, KS has undergone a major renovation, opening up previously sheltered workshops to the public. By creating liminal spaces of possibility, where students can take up “both/and” positions allowing for a multitude of ways to participate, students are experiencing increased support and inclusion, which contributes to a growing feeling of citizenship and well-being. Drawing on participant observations and interviews with students, staff members, as well as customers at the school’s shops, we explore how the architectural layout may facilitate students’ flexible and fluid movements between more or less sheltered positions and further discuss how this flexibility may become supportive for their personal development and well-being. We propose to think of such spaces of possibility as enabling spaces, where inclusive architecture contributes to the creation of new possibilities for participation for people in marginalized life positions. This, we suggest, holds a great potential for social work efforts for people experiencing complex social vulnerability.

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Toward a Psychological Ecology of the Classroom

Cited by 14 publications

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The Activity Structure of Lesson Segments

The Activity Structure of Lesson Segments

Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence

Enabling Spaces; Rethinking Materiality and the Invitational Character of Institutional Environments

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