Children and their development as the starting point: A new way to think about the design of elementary schools

Educational and Child Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-76

  Rigolon, Alessandro ^a   Alloway, Maxine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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