Dictionary definition of “learning cottage”

learning cottage

n. a residential trailer (British ‘caravan’; American ‘mobile home’) used as a temporary or portable classroom. Subjects: English, United States, Education

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Citations: 1996 Mark Schultz Chapel Hill Herald (Durham, N.C.) (July 10) “Trailers still needed despite new school” p. 1: “The big joke around here is we call them ‘learning cottages,‘“ said Joines, who taught in the same trailer last year, her first in the system. 1999 Victoria Benning Washington Post (May 6) “Learning On The Run: Trailer classrooms are a way of life at Centre Ridge Elementary, which makes getting to class—and to the bathroom—a negotiation” p. B1: Eight of the trailers—or “learning cottages,” as Fairfax parents and staff jokingly call them—house fourth-grade classes, four are third-grade classrooms, and the remaining ones are used for music and classes for gifted and disabled students. 2000 Mary MacDonald Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ga.) (Nov. 4) “Marietta schools fight battle of bulge; ‘Retreat’ today to discuss influx” p. G6: Photo Fifth-graders in Erica Allen’s class at Lockheed Elementary School place their book bags into plastic bins outside their “trailer,” which has been dubbed a “learning cottage.” 2004 Meredith Byrne B9_Learning (Atlanta, Ga.) (Dec. 9) “A Little TinTin-Nabulation:Trailer Trainin’ (web hook-up)!”: Somehow, trailer (be it on a farm, or in a public school parking lot) just seems to lack esteemable associations. So now they’ve coined the term “learning cottage” to soften up the blow…at the same time I can’t help but to think “learning cell.”

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