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Guiomar Martín Domínguez – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2024
For many years, the Reggio Emilia approach has been in the spotlight of the international debate on early childhood education, attracting countless devoted followers in preschool centres all over the world and inspiring an ever-increasing amount of pedagogical research. At the heart of this educational philosophy, space is considered a 'third…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Classroom Environment
Wright, Noeline; Thompson, Trent; Horne, Tim – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This article synthesises longitudinal deliberations between two architects and an educator, seeking common ground about learning spaces in schools. As the impetus for new and refurbished school buildings continues in New Zealand, it is timely to unpack instinctual disciplinary practices to better understand space and place in schools. We undertook…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Architecture, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design
Brown, James Benedict – Design and Technology Education, 2021
The studio is a space apart in the university, an environment unique to creative and design disciplines. As we emerge into the pre-dawn light of the post-COVID era, we should use the insight gained from the pandemic to speculate about the future. This article invites the reader to speculate about the possibility of a smaller design studio in…
Descriptors: Design, Studio Art, Architecture, Interior Space
Syeed, Esa – Educational Policy, 2022
School facilities are increasingly seen as essential to achieving educational equity. By foregrounding often taken-for-granted school spaces, this conceptual article seeks to situate school design within broader antiracist efforts in education. To that end, I make a few critical contributions: (a) I shift attention to the social construction and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Equal Education, Racial Bias, Urban Schools
Blackmore, Jill; O'Mara, Joanne – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
Considerable investment has been made to redesign built spaces in schools, with an assumption not based on research evidence embedded in both the architectural and educational literature that this will improve teaching and learning practices. In this study of 12 Victorian case studies in Australia schools were selected based on OECD criteria, not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Environment, Space Utilization, Educational Innovation
Hilander, Markus; Tani, Sirpa – Education Sciences, 2022
As the majority of people in the world now live in cities, it makes sense to question the state of urban environmental education and how it could be developed going forward. In this article, we suggest a way forward based on the essays written by Finnish university students. The students reflected on their relationship with an environment that is…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Urban Education, Environmental Education, College Students
Sava, Mina; Marin, Vera; Popescu, Monica – Childhood Education, 2022
De-a Arhitectura Association, a Romanian cultural organization made up of architects and teachers, develops and promotes architecture and built environment education for children and young people, in order to raise awareness and provide knowledge about the values of architecture, design, and urban planning. Its educational programs take place in…
Descriptors: Architecture, Physical Environment, Foreign Countries, Building Design
Oliveras-Ortiz, Yanira; Bouillion, Dalane E.; Asbury, Lizzy – Journal of Education, 2021
Through a conceptual framework focused on student engagement, this article explores students' perceptions about the impact the design of learning environments has on student engagement. The current mixed-methods study was conducted at two Texas replacement elementary schools where the entire learning community, all teachers, administrators, staff,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Widiastuti, Kurnia; Susilo, Mohamad Joko; Nurfinaputri, Hanifah Sausan – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
School space plays an essential role in creating a pleasurable learning atmosphere. The tendency of everyone to choose a school space also varies. By knowing this trend pattern, schools can be designed to improve student learning effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to find out which school spaces students choose to study, what kind of…
Descriptors: School Space, Physical Environment, Educational Environment, School Libraries
Niemi, Kreeta – Education Inquiry, 2021
Finnish education has recently experienced reforms with respect to guidelines forming the curriculum framework for basic education and school architecture. Since 2016, all new schools incorporate open and flexible design, at least to some extent. The more open school design challenges the conventional organisation of space and pre-defined…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Architecture