Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Architecture and the School in the Twentieth Century Julie Willis Part 1: Lessons from History 2. From Looking to Seeing, or This Was the Future ... Ian Grosvenor 3. Building Ruins: Abandoned Ideas of the School Martin Lawn 4. Postwar Schools: A Personal History Elain Harwood Part 2: School Buildings 5. The Classroom is Another Place? Ernest J. Kump's 'Ideal' Learning Environments for Californian Schools, 1937-1962 Philip Goad 6. Educational Facilities Laboratories: Debating and Designing the Postwar American Schoolhouse Amy F. Ogata 7. Creating Friendly School Environments: 'Casual' High Schools, Progressive Education and Child-Centred Culture in Postwar America Dale Allen Gyure 8. Open Shut Them: Open Classrooms in Australian Schools, 1967-1983 Cameron Logan 9. The Balance between Intimacy and Interchange: Swiss Schools During the 1960s Marco di Nallo Part 3: School Cultures 10. Making Schools and Thinking through Materialities: Denmark, 1890-1960 Ning de Coninck-Smith 11. Domestic Spaces and School Places: Vocational Education and Gender in Modern Australia Kate Darian-Smith 12. 'We Make No Discrimination': Aboriginal Education and the Socio-spatial Arrangements of the Australian Classroom Julie McLeod and Sianan Healy 13. Model Schools for Model Cities: Educational Facilities as Monuments to Planning Reform Amber Wiley 14. The Nigerian 'Unity Schools': The UNESCO-IDA School Building Programme in Africa Ola Uduku Part 4: School Spaces 15. Quiet Stories of Educational Design Catherine Burke 16. Hans Coper and Paul Ritter: Tactile Environments for Children in Postwar Britain and Australia Geraint Franklin and David Nichols 17. Bristling with Opportunity: Audio-visual Technology in Australian Schools from the 1930s to the 1980s David Nichols and Hannah Lewi 18. Digital Classrooms and the New Economies of Attention: Reflections on the End of Schooling as Confinement Inés Dussel Index
