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Design as a Social Practice: The Design of New Build Schools
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Daniels, Harry; Tse, Hau Ming; Stables, Andrew; Cox, Sarah – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
In this paper we present the findings of an investigation into the ways in which the discourses and practices of school design produce educational spaces which influence the discourses and practices of teaching and learning when the building is occupied. It expands notions of post occupancy evaluation (POE) research by exploring how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Facilities Design, Secondary Schools, Building Design
Looking Back to Imagine the Future: Connecting with the Radical Past in Technologies of School Design
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Burke, Catherine – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2014
Why look back to imagine the future? Given the almost universal consensus that higher level technology-enhanced learning should lead in the design of school buildings, what place is there for low-level (non-digital) technologies in education? What can we learn from revisiting schools that were at one time seen to be internationally pioneering in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Facilities Design, Influence of Technology, Student Attitudes
New York City School Designs: A Project of the Architectural League of New York and the Public Education Association. New Schools for New York.
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Genevro, Rosalie – Teachers College Record, 1990
Describes the 1989-90 "New Schools for New York" architectural study project which asked architects to create schools (via renovation or new construction) embodying flexibility, security, warmth, cost efficiency, and respect for students and teachers as individuals. The specific architectural challenges at each of the six selected sites…
Descriptors: Architects, Architecture, Building Design, Community Schools