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Direct linkEaton, Jacqueline; Salari, Sonia – Educational Gerontology, 2005
Senior-center learning opportunities must adapt, as new retirees are better educated than their predecessors. We examined 3 multipurpose senior centers using 120 hours of observations and 30 participant interviews. Variation existed in the ability to maximize synomorphic relationships, where the physical environment supported educational…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Lifelong Learning, Educational Facilities Design
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The American Institute of Architects honored five recently completed university buildings whose architects solved the difficulties of site and scale: Columbia University's Computer Science Building, Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art, Emory's Museum of Art, Princeton's Lewis Thomas Laboratory, and the University of California at Irvine's Computer…
Descriptors: Architecture, Awards, Building Design, College Buildings
Peer reviewedArcy, Thomas H.; Schultz, Jerelyn B. – College Student Journal, 1980
Discusses modernizing, remodeling, or developing new home economic facilities. Equipment considerations, curriculum objectives, the making of a master plan, and planning reminders are provided along with a basic sketch to review prior to planning home economics laboratories. (Author)
Descriptors: Building Plans, Classroom Design, Educational Equipment, Educational Facilities Design
Peer reviewedEducational Record, 1989
A collection of captioned photographs illustrates the range of campus construction needs, projects, and considerations in current efforts to catch up with the results of deferred maintenance and improvement. (MSE)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Campus Planning, College Buildings, Deferred Maintenance
Ringers, Jr., Joseph – Educational Facility Planner, 1996
The "turf" concerns of educators have hampered school facility design that provides housing for both school and community programs. Community center schools are defined. Staffing problems of human services and schools in a co-location, factors in the project's success, the facility, security, and current directions of community center…
Descriptors: Built Environment, Community Centers, Community Education, Educational Facilities Design
Download full textDiner, Steven J. – 1982
This report on the governance of public education in Washington, D.C. describes issues and conflicts that have arisen since the 19th century among the agencies which have exercised various forms and degrees of authority and responsibility for education in the District: The Board of School Trustees or Board of Education; the central city…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Citizen Participation, Court Litigation, Decentralization
Moore, Gary T. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
Provides a list of developmentally appropriate activity areas for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers which could be used in multi-house, module, or medium-sized child care centers. Describes these age-appropriate physical, academic, sensory-motor, fine arts, and multi-use areas, and provides suggestions for inexpensive materials, toys, storage,…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Campus Planning, Construction Materials, Day Care Centers
