Designing Schools
by Julie Willis (Editor), Kate Darian-Smith (Editor)
ISBN-10: 113888619X
ISBN-13: 9781138886193
$205.00
Book Specs
Trade Cloth
Routledge
Published on
Oct 7, 2016
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.25x1.00x10.00 Inches
Weight
1.65 Pounds
About the Book
Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today. 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. 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.