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This chapter examines where teaching and learning take place for students and teachers. It describes the more traditional notions that many have experienced over the twentieth century, but also addresses the types of places that more marginalized populations have faced. This part of the book also explores more informal aspects of education and how teaching and learning have happened outside of the school and how educators have tried to reinvent the school environment to make it less formal by creating more open spaces within schools. Early twentieth-century Open Air schools, the onset of field trips or excursions in the 1930s, and the popularity of schools without walls in the 1960 and 1970s are all explored in this chapter.
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Ryan, A.M., Tocci, C., Moon, S. (2020). Where Do Teaching and Learning Happen?. In: The Curriculum Foundations Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34428-3_2
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