Inherited Furniture: o que a disposição da sala diz aos alunos (B2)
Ask most teachers why their pupils sit in rows facing the front, and the honest answer is that the room came that way. Furniture is inherited, and inherited furniture carries an argument. Rows assume that knowledge travels in one direction, from a person standing to people sitting still. Move the same tables into clusters and something shifts within a week: quieter students speak, the teacher walks more, and the noise level rises in ways that inspectors sometimes mistake for chaos. I am not claiming that clusters teach algebra by themselves. A badly planned lesson in a circle is still a badly planned lesson. But the arrangement of a room is a claim about who is allowed to talk, and it is worth making that claim deliberately rather than accepting whatever the previous decade left behind.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
A ressalva feita em "I am not claiming that clusters teach algebra by themselves" cumpre, no texto, a função de
- A) reforçar que as fileiras tradicionais continuam sendo o arranjo mais eficaz para ensinar.
- B) indicar que o autor mudou de posição sobre o tema ao longo da argumentação.
- C) criticar os inspetores que confundem o ruído da sala com falta de disciplina.
- D) sugerir que os professores não devem interferir no mobiliário que herdaram.
- E) limitar o alcance do argumento, evitando atribuir à disposição das carteiras um poder que ela não tem.