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Wright, Noeline; Thompson, Trent; Horne, Tim – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This article synthesises longitudinal deliberations between two architects and an educator, seeking common ground about learning spaces in schools. As the impetus for new and refurbished school buildings continues in New Zealand, it is timely to unpack instinctual disciplinary practices to better understand space and place in schools. We undertook…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Architecture, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design
Blackmore, Jill; O'Mara, Joanne – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
Considerable investment has been made to redesign built spaces in schools, with an assumption not based on research evidence embedded in both the architectural and educational literature that this will improve teaching and learning practices. In this study of 12 Victorian case studies in Australia schools were selected based on OECD criteria, not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Environment, Space Utilization, Educational Innovation
Hilander, Markus; Tani, Sirpa – Education Sciences, 2022
As the majority of people in the world now live in cities, it makes sense to question the state of urban environmental education and how it could be developed going forward. In this article, we suggest a way forward based on the essays written by Finnish university students. The students reflected on their relationship with an environment that is…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Urban Education, Environmental Education, College Students
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
Widiastuti, Kurnia; Susilo, Mohamad Joko; Nurfinaputri, Hanifah Sausan – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
School space plays an essential role in creating a pleasurable learning atmosphere. The tendency of everyone to choose a school space also varies. By knowing this trend pattern, schools can be designed to improve student learning effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to find out which school spaces students choose to study, what kind of…
Descriptors: School Space, Physical Environment, Educational Environment, School Libraries
Alpak, Elif Merve; Özkan, Doruk Görkem; Düzenli, Tugba – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
Landscape architects design the environment, which is an organic part, an outdoor extension of the building, according to the various functions of buildings. One of the most important objectives in design is to create a strong organization which forms a whole by combining different parts. While creating this organization, it is essential to…
Descriptors: Horticulture, Building Design, Architecture, Systems Approach
Grosvenor, Ian, Ed.; Rasmussen, Lisa Rosén, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2018
This book brings together the notions of material school design and educational governance in the first such text to address this critical interrelationship in any depth. In addressing the issue of governance through analysing current and historical material school designs, it looks at the intersection of politics, economics, aesthetics and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Governance, Aesthetics, Physical Environment
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
Ackah-Jnr, Francis R.; Danso, Joyce B. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
The extent to which inclusive schools can physically and pedagogically include children with disability and special educational needs or otherwise is also identified to depend largely on the physical environment. This descriptive, mixed methods study reports empirically driven data on the nature, accessibility, suitability and appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Environment, Inclusion, Disabilities
Widiastuti, Kurnia; Susilo, Mohamad Joko; Nurfinaputri, Hanifah Sausan – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
This study aimed to determine the factors that influence student learning comfort in the classroom and its distribution. This explorative study employed 772 students who were elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school students in several Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta schools. Data collection techniques using open questionnaires. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Architecture, Elementary School Students, High School Students
Fatma, Arhab-Saidi; Boualem, Djebri; Hemza, Saidi – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
In this paper, we present our main results of the post occupancy evaluation of thermal comfort of two primary schools constructed following the same plane, situated in two different climate zones. The first stage of the work consisted on measurements using meteorological equipments. These measurements are used to quantify the physical parameters…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Meteorology, Measurement Equipment
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
Niemi, Kreeta – Education Inquiry, 2021
Finnish education has recently experienced reforms with respect to guidelines forming the curriculum framework for basic education and school architecture. Since 2016, all new schools incorporate open and flexible design, at least to some extent. The more open school design challenges the conventional organisation of space and pre-defined…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Architecture
Owusu-Manu, D.; Edwards, D. J.; Kukah, A. S.; Pärn, E. A.; El-Gohary, H.; Aigbavboa, C. – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
Built environment students graduate with good technical skills but often lack the rudiments of management and leadership skills. Other challenges they face, among others, include interpersonal skills, emotional skills, self-awareness and impulse control. This article presents a case study assessing the emotional intelligence (EI) attributes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Developing Nations, Physical Environment
Locke, Kirsten – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
Inspired by a new teaching initiative that involved a redesign of conventional classroom spaces at the University of Auckland's Epsom Campus, this article considers the relationship between architecture, the built environment and education. It characterises the teaching space of the Epsom Campus as the embodiment of educational policy following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Campuses, Classrooms