The Role of Class Scale in Promotion of Students’ Participation in Active Learning Process (Case Study: Male Students of a Secondary School in Shiraz)

Subject Areas : Urban Design

ali akbar heidari ¹ , Yaghowb Peyvastehgar ² , Saeed Gandomkar ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Technical department of Yasuj University, Yasuj, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of architecture and urban design, Yasooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran.
3 - Master Student of Architecture, Department of architecture and urban design, Yasooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran.

Received: 2017-06-02 Accepted : 2018-03-18 Published : 2018-06-01

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