Designing Schools

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Space, Place and Pedagogy

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Designing Schools explores the intricate relationship between school building design and educational practices from the twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on international case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Australia, it examines historical innovations in school architecture within the context of evolving pedagogies. The book addresses challenges brought by new technologies and the digital era, focusing on how school environments shape and are shaped by cultural, political, and social ideas about teaching, learning, and childhood.
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This book is ideal for educators, architects, policymakers, and students interested in the intersection of educational theory and school design. It suits readers seeking a scholarly understanding of how physical school environments affect and reflect evolving educational cultures.

Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates these within changing pedagogical ideas about the ‘best’ ways to educate children.

Description

Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today. Through international case studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Australia, this volume examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates these within changing pedagogical ideas about the ‘best’ ways to educate children.

It also investigates the challenges posed by new technologies and the digital age to the design and use of school places. Set around three interlinked themes – school buildings, school spaces, and school cultures – this book argues that education is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political, and social concerns about teaching, learning, and the child.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138886193

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 September 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 12 Line drawings, black and white; 70 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Kate Darian-Smith
Edited by Julie Willis

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 780g

Pages: 266

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kate Darian-Smith holds concurrent appointments as Professor of Australian Studies and History, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, and Professor of Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has written extensively on material culture, memory studies, Australian and imperial history and heritage, with recent publications including Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage (2013) and Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim (2015). Kate is an editor of Australian Historical Studies, has served as an adviser to government and cultural institutions and has a long involvement with the international development of Australian Studies.

Julie Willis is Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research concentrates on Australian architectural history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With Philip Goad, she is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture (2012) and she was a major contributor to Hannah Lewi and David Nichols (eds), Community: Building Modern Australia (2010). Her current research includes writing a new short history of Australian architecture; examining the development of the modern hospital; and, with colleagues from history and education, leading a project examining innovation in the design of twentieth-century schools.