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In describing Judy Richard’s classroom, the author shows how a creative teacher’s commitment to seeing her classroom as a living space inevitably brings her to overstep the narrow limits of the traditional mandates of classroom management. The author presents this portrait as an example of the ideological and creative stance teachers can assume in relation to their classrooms. Addressing challenges that are specific to urban public schools, the author also suggests that public schools must abandon their oversimplified conception of learning spaces and develop support systems that help teachers incorporate the socio-emotional, developmental, and cultural needs of their students into their classroom settings.  \nKey Words: space, classroom environment, Henri Lefebvre, social production of space, resistance, traditional classroom, portraiture  \nWhen a veteran public school teacher transfers or retires, she must pack up her classroom. Some things she has to take or let be discarded; some things she has to leave behind. What remains are the barebones of an educational setting—the institutional patrimony she received on her first day in the classroom, which she now leaves to her successor.  \nThe traditional contents of new classrooms are quite familiar: four walls, two windows, two closets, four dozen chairs and as many individual tables, two whiteboards, a shelf-full of official curricula, a handful of computers, three packs of notebooks and binders, pens and pencils, and thumbtacks for sticking things to the walls. These objects embody a particular vision of education. It is an isolated and austere set-up. What is thereis there to serve the academic task, as performed on paper. Other human needs, such as development, beauty, play, privacy, conversation, freedom of movement, and even food and water, do not inherently belong here. What the teacher packs away as she leaves is all evidence and history of her and her students’efforts. But she also takes away all, if any, modifications she managed to make to this initial patrimony. The age-old setting of public education, barely changed for over a century (Scott-Webber, 2004), revives itself. While some schools have consciously rejected the old rows-and-aisles approach to elementary classrooms and opted for more distributed set-ups involving work-stations  \n1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Houman Harouni. Email: [houman_harouni@mail.harvard.edu](houman_harouni@mail.harvard.edu)  \nI would like to express my gratitude to Judy Richards, Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Clare Parker, Luisa Ehrich, Sarah Dobbins, and the faculty and students of Graham and Parks.  \nBerkeley Review of Education Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 187-204  \n188 Harouni  \nand gathering areas, such improvements are marginal to the overall experience of schooling. Discussions of changing the classroom space require more a complex definition of space—one that takes into account much more than the bare physical bones of the classroom and makes room for a greater set of human experiences. It is in this sense that a close look at a single teacher’s classroom begins to gain value for a larger audience.  \nA critical approach t","cbCairLiZFlCgOPx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairLiZFlCgOPx","pdf",289440,"English","# Introduction\n## Classroom space as teacher and ideology\n## Space as a social product","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main focus on classroom space?\",\"answer\":\"It presents a portrait of a public elementary classroom by examining how relationships, history, and ideas shape the physical space and its broader meaning.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Judy Richards’ teaching relate to the classroom environment?\",\"answer\":\"The author shows that Richards treats the classroom as a living space, which leads her to challenge narrow traditional mandates of classroom management.\"},{\"question\":\"What change does the paper recommend for public schools’ learning-space conceptions?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that public schools should abandon oversimplified ideas of learning spaces and develop support systems that help teachers incorporate students’ socio-emotional, developmental, and cultural needs.\"}]","Lived-in Room: Classroom Space as Teacher - Abstract | PDF",48]