Alternative Learning Environments
Alternative Learning Environments

Author: Gary J. Coates

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-22

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 1003825303

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Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education. It contains 29 selections that reflect the thought and actions of leaders from many diverse disciplines and professions. Architects, landscape architects, urban planners, teachers and administrators, psychologists and social theorists address themselves to controversial and important issues facing our post-industrial society. The range of subjects explored in the volume is far-reaching: • Environmental education in which the art of planning and designing itself becomes the curriculum • Advocacy planning and community participation in bo9th educational and design decision making • Alternative educational institutions, ranging from community-centered schools and mobile schools to non-school learning networks that distribute the learning activity throughout the fabric of the city and the lifetime of the learner. • New developments in systematic design methods and evaluation research that promise to make the design process more public and responsive to the user-client.

Geographies of Alternative Education
Geographies of Alternative Education

Author: Kraftl, Peter

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2014-11-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1447320514

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This book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education - including Steiner, human scale and forest schools, care farms and homeschooling.Based on original research with teachers, parents and young people at over 50 learning spaces, Geographies of alternative education demonstrates the importance of a geographical lens for understanding alternative education. In so doing, it develops contemporary theories of autonomy, emotion/affect, habit, intergenerational relations and life-itself. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduates in the fields of geography, sociology, education and youth studies. Given ongoing concerns about the state's role in providing children's education, and an increase in the number of alternative education providers in the UK and elsewhere, the book also highlights several critical questions for policy makers and practitioners.

Alternative American Schools
Alternative American Schools

Author: Claire V. Korn

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780791404713

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Alternative American Schools: Ideals in Action is a book for parents and teachers, for education professors, researchers, and students--indeed, for everyone who wants to understand the daily practices and philosophies of schools where awakening interests and learning how to learn is more important than content mastery. Drawing upon years of research and personal experiences, Korn clearly discusses fundamental contemporary educational issues through an analysis of seven long-lived, open, alternative schools, preschool through high school, public and private. This clearly written book explores the cooperative (and sometimes confusing) roles of teachers, students, and parents in these schools of choice; it also discusses their philosophical, financial, and physical survival needs. Once popularly dismissed as failed dreams, today these open learning environments continue to flourish and provide educational options to many enthusiastic learners.

Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate
Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9264047980

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This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments.

Shifting School Design to the 21st Century
Shifting School Design to the 21st Century

Author: Bryan H. Perez

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13:

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There is a need for major change in our educational system and in particular the design of schools. Our existing school model was defined in the mid- to late-1800s, as a response to the Industrial Revolution, and does not reflect the needs of the next generation of 21st century students. One of the key elements of change in schools is the shift from confined classrooms towards alternative learning environments - spaces that are designed for a specific learning type or activity. This thesis focuses on secondary education and examines three schools identified as having innovative school designs. While all three schools are professionally recognized as innovative institutes by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architectural Education (CAE), their local AIA chapter, and/or by the Association for Learning Environments' James D. MacConnell Award, they vary in curriculum, program requirements, size, and site context. The research of these schools uses a qualitative mixed method approach to measure the effectiveness of alternative learning environments in secondary schools. It is conducted through a combination of an inventory and analysis of each school's program and spaces as well as through a questionnaire sent to the faculty, staff, and administration of each school to assess the use and qualities of the alternative learning environments in their schools. The objective of this research is to identify the positive and negative impacts of the alternative learning environments on the school's organization, curriculum, educators, and students.