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Designing Preschools for an Independent and Social Child: Visions of Preschool Space in the Swedish Welfare State
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Westberg, Johannes – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
The physical environment in early childhood education and care is crucial. This paper examines the Swedish government's vision of preschool design in the welfare state of the 1970s and the conceptions of children and society upon which it was based. Presenting an investigation of reports, booklets, and study materials published by various branches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Preschool Education, Educational Facilities Design
Making the Schoolyard: Recess, Recreation, Play, and Other Pedagogical Incentives to Regulate Outdoor School Spaces in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden
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Norlin, Björn – Educational Governance Research, 2018
The present chapter examines early modern schooling in Sweden and more precisely how spatial conceptualizations of the outdoors (with regard to the use of it for recess, physical activity, recreational play, and other educational activities) were accumulated in formal curricula. The chapter draws attention to the introduction and origins of ideas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Space Utilization, Playgrounds
'Yay, a Downhill!': Mobile Preschool Children's Collective Mobility Practices and 'Doing' Space in Walks in Line
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Ladru, Danielle Ekman; Gustafson, Katarina – Journal of Pedagogy, 2018
In the field of early childhood research children's mobility is usually discussed only in terms of physical activity in the preschool yard. More seldom is it discussed in terms of mobility practices and how young children move in public spaces. With unique detailed video-ethnographic data on mobile preschools and a new combination of theories on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Mobility, Space Utilization, Learning Activities
Learning Space for Food: Exploring Three Home Economics Classrooms
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Höijer, Karin; Fjellström, Christina; Hjälmeskog, Karin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2013
Studies on children's learning about food commonly focus on socialisation within a temporal perspective taking an interest in linear and developmental issues, where the home is assumed as the primary place for learning food skills that should be deepened through education in Home Economics. Home Economics concern topics that are related to our…
Descriptors: Home Economics Education, Food, Foreign Countries, Foods Instruction
The Paradoxes of Student Learning Preferences
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Beach, Dennis – Ethnography and Education, 2008
Creativity is part of a current global policy paradigm in education. The present article examines aspects of one national version of this policy in practice, by looking at the ways student preferences for different types of classroom teaching in different subjects with different "spaces for creativity and self-realisation" are socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Educational Policy, Global Approach
Surplus Space in Schools: An Opportunity.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Programme on Educational Building. – 1985
Surplus school spaces, highlighted by falling enrollments, will significantly affect educational building policies in the eighties. Accordingly, this document consists of a comprehensive analysis of the causes of surplus, the problems and opportunities that follow, and the implications for policy and planning. Part 1 analyzes the six major causes…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Educational Economics, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Trends