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Children's behaviour and the design of school furniture

GRENVILLE KNIGHT School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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JAN NOYES Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK
Pages 747-760 | Published online: 10 Nov 2010

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