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Herman, Frederik; Tondeur, Jo – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
This article seeks to examine the neglected sociomateriality of the classroom and investigates how space, matter and human actors are entangled, interact and take part in the 'space-producing action'. Rather than approaching the classroom as an objective collection of physical units or a stable grid, we see it as something alive, a performance…
Descriptors: Space Utilization, Classroom Design, Biographies, Elementary School Teachers
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Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín; Hjartarson, Torfi – Educational Governance Research, 2018
A recent shift in the design of school buildings in Iceland is apparent, from a conventional classroom setting to a more open and flexible learning environment. The aim of the project related here is to take a close look at this development by identifying significant design features and how they have changed over time to reflect educational policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Buildings, Governance, Educational Practices
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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
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Tondeur, Jo; Herman, Frederik; De Buck, Maud; Triquet, Karen – European Journal of Education, 2017
Despite growing interest in redesigning the material landscape of education, relatively little is known about the impact of these evolving classrooms. This study aimed to gain insight into the physical learning environment and the potential pedagogical impacts thereof. A "biographical approach" (c. 1963-2015) was used to explore the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biographies, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Brkovic, Marta – Improving Schools, 2015
Since 2000, when education reform in Serbia began education goals, teachers' training, curriculum and teaching/learning methods have been modernised and improved. However, a closer examination of the schools built from 2000 onwards reveals that architectural design of primary schools rests on standardised school design schemes from socialist…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, School Buildings
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Robertson, Bill – Science and Children, 2015
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. When the author was young he used to think that the ideal design for a concert hall would contain walls that were composed of sound-absorbing material, like foam or egg cartons or such. He noticed, though, that this was not the case. Most concert halls contain curtains…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Engineering, Music, Science Instruction
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Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairéad – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
The context of students as architects is used to examine the similarities and differences between prisms and pyramids. Leavy and Hourigan use the Van Hiele Model as a tool to support teachers to develop expectations for differentiating geometry in the classroom using practical examples.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Architecture, Teaching Methods, Geometric Concepts
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Senne, Jessica; Coxon, Steve V. – Gifted Child Today, 2016
The United States is dependent on innovations in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields for the growth of its economy and improvements to quality of life, but too few students are prepared for them. To help meet the challenges in filling the STEM pipeline, teachers of gifted elementary students can nurture important talents,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Spatial Ability, STEM Education, Talent Development
O'Donnell, Sean; Cuthbert, Marjorie; Cronin, Abbie; Urbieta, Melissa Nosal – Educational Facility Planner, 2011
Just 19 months after the start of design, Stoddert Elementary School's modernized and expanded campus in northwest Washington, DC reopened, welcoming back the school and its community. Featuring spaces that had been missing since the school was founded in 1932, such as a gym, cafeteria, and library/media center and up-to-date building systems and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Global Approach, Energy, Acoustics
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This article seeks to augment an emerging interest in education policy research in enactment theorising, to explicitly consider the role and contribution of materiality in this theorising. Guided by the notion of policy "matters," the article takes as its empirical context a major policy initiative, the Building the Education Revolution…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Role, Educational Research, Policy Analysis
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Burke, Catherine; Dudek, Mark – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Prestolee School, at Kearsley, near Bolton in Lancashire, UK, was the site of an experiment in education between 1919 and 1952 under the leadership of head teacher, Edward Francis O'Neill (1890-1975). The school attracted much national and international attention over three decades owing to the unorthodox methods practised by O'Neill and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experiments, Progressive Education, Educational Facilities Design
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Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín; Hjartarson, Torfi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2011
The aim of this study is to identify features of change in the recent design of school buildings in Iceland, and how they might affect teaching practices. Environmental and architectonic features characterising school buildings designed and built at the beginning of the 21st century are examined in light of challenges involving architecture,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Buildings, Change, Building Design
Morris, Ronald V. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Looking for social studies adventures to help students find connections to democratic citizenship? Look no further! This book provides just the answer teachers need for engaging students in field trips as researching learners with emphasis on interdisciplinary social studies plus skills in collecting and reporting data gathered from field…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, History Instruction
Malcolm Summers – PEB Exchange, 2008
In presenting this case study of an innovative school building in Scotland, the author describes its unique design features, conveys the viewpoints of the users, client and design team, and reveals the lessons learned. Dalry Primary, North Ayrshire Introduction Dalry Primary School in North Ayshire is the latest case study featured on the Scottish…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Foreign Countries, School Buildings, Teaching Methods
Goncalves, Fernando J., Ed.; Pereira, Ruth, Ed.; Leal Filho, Walter, Ed.; Miranda Azeiteiro, Ulisses, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
This book presents essential learning approaches. It introduces educational and training activities, as well as various innovative methods aiming at the development of practical skills, in order to strengthen the continuous process of environmental education, and in particular the education for sustainable development (ESD). In doing so, it…
Descriptors: Field Instruction, Animals, Higher Education, Science Education
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