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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
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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
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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
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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
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Moreira, Cintia Mariza do Amaral; Dantas Motta, Ana Carolina de Gouvea; Vianello, Juliano Melquiades; Gonçalves, Rosilene de Athayde; de Paula, Carla Queiroz – NORDSCI, 2020
The Professional Master's in Work Management for the Quality of the Built Environment, MPGTQAC has existed at the Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since the beginning of 2015. The body is one of the substantive elements of the course. It emerges as an elective discipline. The purpose of this communication is to refine the…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
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van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G.; McKenney, Susan; Cullinan, Dominic; Heuer, Jos – European Journal of Education, 2017
The quality of education suffers when pedagogies are not aligned with physical learning spaces. For example, the architecture of the triple-decker Victorian schools across England fits the information transmission model that was dominant in the industrial age, but makes it more difficult to implement student-centred pedagogies that better fit a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Environment, Educational Quality, School Buildings
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Burke, Catherine – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
The Decorated School is an interdisciplinary research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The article situates current academic and wider community engagement concerning the purpose and significance of art as part of the school building and grounds in an historical context. It goes on to discuss emerging patterns of…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, School Buildings, Community Involvement, Educational Improvement
Crane, Steve – Educational Facility Planner, 2010
The American Institute of Architecture's Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) held their annual fall conference in Helsinki, Finland. Several international studies have rated Finland among the world's best in student achievement, largely due to the country's main principles for comprehensive education. This stands in sharp contrast to…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Architecture, International Studies, Foreign Countries
da Silva, Joseph; Alvarado, Manuel Cordero – Educational Facility Planner, 2011
The experience of observing students actively engaged in the learning process is precious. There is no better way to celebrate "Children's Health and Energy Awareness Month" than assembling in a world class high performance green school with gifted and talented students learning how to take an integrated approach to sustainable school…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Academic Achievement, Vocational Schools, School Activities
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Erickson, Mary; Delahunt, Michael – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
Most art teachers would agree that architecture is an important form of visual art, but they do not always include it in their curriculums. In this article, the authors share core ideas from "Architecture and Environment," a teaching resource that they developed out of a long-term interest in teaching architecture and their fascination with the…
Descriptors: Architecture, Studio Art, Grade 6, Structural Elements (Construction)
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Zagacki, Kenneth S.; Gallagher, Victoria J. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2009
The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates "spaces of attention" wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Museums, Art, Physical Environment
Calvo-Sotelo, Pablo Campos – CELE Exchange, 2010
A university campus should reflect a commitment to quality and be dedicated to the intellectual, psychological and social development of its students. The "Educational Campus" is an innovative concept which espouses this concept and is designed to stimulate a process of modernisation in universities and contribute to their excellence.…
Descriptors: Social Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Development
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Ekman, Richard H. – Planning for Higher Education, 2011
America's private colleges and universities include most of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country, and their evolving physical campuses say much about American education. In recent years, the study of campus history, preservation, and adaptive reuse has received increasing attention by many sectors of the educational…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Architecture, Universities
Lippman, Peter C. – CELE Exchange, 2010
This article argues in favour of challenging "best practice" generally accepted by the architectural profession by embracing a responsive design approach for creating learning environments. Such an approach accepts that the environment shapes the learner, and that learners influence their environment. A responsive design approach would embrace the…
Descriptors: Design, Interaction, Physical Environment, Educational Environment
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Vande Zande, Robin – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
Sustainable design is a philosophy adopted by people concerned with the health of society and the natural environment. The practice of sustainable design works toward the improvement of the quality of the built environment, while reducing or eradicating the negative impact on the natural environment (McLennan 2004). It is a philosophical approach…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Building Design, Teacher Education Curriculum, Community Planning
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