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Downs, Linda; Brenner, Carla – 1998
This teaching guide discusses ancient Egyptian culture, the lithographs made by Napoleon's scientists in 1798-99 to study and record every aspect of Egypt, the world's subsequent fascination with Egypt, ancient Egyptian architecture, Egyptian writing, and archeologists' illustrations of Egypt. The guide suggests activities for elementary school,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Art Education, Art History
Cold, Birgit – 1986
Using an outline format accompanied by numerous photographs and sketches, this brochure explores the relationship of "school" to people's conceptions, actions, and physical surroundings, highlighting changes over the past 20 years in Scandinavian school design. Two major conceptual changes are decentralized administration and teaching…
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Sharples, Steve – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1987
Questions "community architecture" as not being a discrete and homogeneous set of images about activities and products. Differentiates between the distinct, and possibly contradictory, approaches to architecture taken by Prince Charles of Great Britain and Rod Hackney. (TW)
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Architectural Research, Architecture, Citizen Participation
Campbell, Ann – 1980
This document consists of two teaching manuals designed to accompany a commercially-available "multicultural, interdisciplinary video program," consisting of four still videotape programs (72 minutes, 226 frames), one teaching poster, and these two manuals. "Teacher's Manual: Ancient Greek Architecture" covers: "Ancient…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Architecture, Art Education, Art History
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Kauppinen, Heta – School Arts, 1980
Finnish educators are concerned with the affective and aesthetic aspects of environmental education, with sensitivity to the urban, as well as the natural, environment. This article, one of several in this issue on art education in other countries, describes how human environment concepts are used in Finnish art teaching. (SJL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architecture, Art Activities, Art Education
Watt, Richard S. – 1982
The nature and variety of classification systems for museum and university art department slide collections are surveyed through a review of the literature on slide classification in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia, and through case studies of major slide collections at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Architecture, Art, Case Studies
Grupe, Dixie J. – 2000
This curriculum project explores three genres of spiritual location: the synagogue, the mosque, and the cathedral. The project examines their distinct elements and the elements that tie them together as sacred places that transcend time and place. It lists five student objectives: (1) identify the basic structural elements; (2) explain the use of…
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Built Environment, Comparative Analysis
Cooper, Rosemary; Fordham, Jennie – 2001
Osborne, located on the Isle of Wight, is almost entirely Victorian. It was designed, built, and furnished to the royal family's specifications (as a holiday home), and remains largely unaltered since Queen Victoria died in 1901. It offers unique resources for those studying not only the Victorian royal family but other aspects of 19th-century…
Descriptors: Architecture, Built Environment, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education
Christenson, Charles Elroy – 1994
This resource packet was compiled by a participant in the Fulbright Summer Seminar on Indonesia. The materials provide information for teaching about the diaspora of Hinduism and Islamic beliefs throughout the southeast Asia archipelagoes and their influence on art and culture. The handouts supplement information on Indonesia as part of an Asian…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Art Appreciation, Asian History
Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education. – 1995
This unit introduces students to the historical tradition of a non-Western nation seen within the comparative concept of feudalism. This is done partly through a look at Tokugawa Japan and partly through a comparative examination of the concept of feudalism. Although the unit deals mainly with a specific time span in Japanese history, it also…
Descriptors: Architecture, Area Studies, Asian History, Asian Studies
1996
This handbook provides eight detailed interdisciplinary lesson plans, with art, archaeological, and architectural heritage of historical British sites as the introductory focus. Historical background is combined with a variety of possible content area approaches, documentary sources, and photocopiable activity sheets for classroom and on-site…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Architecture, Art Education, Built Environment
Curnow, Richard T. – 1995
The two lesson plans presented here are designed to be used as teaching resources in presenting India to high school students. Lesson one focuses on "India and Cartoons" and uses contemporary Indian political and social cartoons for student analyses of social commentary. Lesson two examines "British Architecture during the Raj"…
Descriptors: Architecture, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Cartoons
Cooper, Rosemary – 1988
Carisbrooke Castle in England, Charles I's prison for nearly a year, is a complex historic site with walls dating from the early 12th century and additions and alterations incorporated over later centuries. This guide may be used by teachers preparing their students for an on-site visit, or as an independent study of an English medieval castle.…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Architecture, Elementary Secondary Education, European History
Elhanini, Aba – 1986
Architects need to understand sociology, psychology, philosophy, education, and many other fields in order to plan professional buildings. To illustrate this point, a distinction is drawn between teaching (imparting factual knowledge) and educating (imparting general understanding or basic appreciation of the subjects studied and applying this…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Building Design, Cooperation
Brown, Jake – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1987
Describes a project that is a part of an "Architects in Schools" program in England in which students were challenged to redesign a small structure on the school grounds. Discusses the student tasks involved, including the development of scale models, and the evaluation of the design. (TW)
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Drafting, Architectural Education, Architecture
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