Planning and Designing Schools

Planning and Designing Schools

Author: C. William Brubaker

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Brubaker shows how he and other leading architects and educators have designed award-winning schools of the future, responding creatively to the changes in educational philosophy, the makeup of student bodies, and the technology of the classroom.


Designing Schools

Designing Schools

Author: Kate Darian-Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1317502663

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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.


Planning and Designing Scho

Planning and Designing Scho

Author: C. William Brubaker

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9780070494053

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With a new baby boom on the horizon for the 21st century, large increases in the number of school-age children will drive the rehabilitation of outdated facilities and the construction of new ones. The school market, from elementary through university, is thriving, and comprehensive analysis of the requirements of tomorrow's schools is sorely needed. New educational tools, new mixes of student bodies, and new philosophies of learning characterize today's schools; this book illuminates the design implications for the retrofitting and new construction of elementary and secondary schools.


Understanding by Design

Understanding by Design

Author: Grant P. Wiggins

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1416600353

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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.


Sustainable School Architecture

Sustainable School Architecture

Author: Lisa Gelfand

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-03-29

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0470445432

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Get the comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of schools. The elementary and secondary school buildings and campuses built today are the schools of the future. Sustainable School Architecture is a guide to the planning, architecture, and design of schools that are healthy, stimulating, and will conserve energy and resources. Written with the needs of architects, construction professionals, educators, and school administration in mind, the book provides a road map for sustainable planning, design, construction, and operations. By its very nature, a school is often the centerpiece of its community and, therefore, well positioned to take the lead in influencing environmental awareness. Building on this point, Sustainable School Architecture shows how eco-friendly practices for school construction can create an environment that young students will emulate and carry into the world. Written by experts on sustainable school design, this book: Focuses on the links between best sustainable practices and the specific needs of educational institutions. Has nineteen international case studies of the best contemporary sustainable schools located in urban, suburban, and rural communities in temperate, tropical, and extreme climate zones. Contains valuable information on the California Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) rating system. Serves as a resource for incremental modernization and operation strategies as well as comprehensive transformation. Offers tips on running an integrated, community-based design process with support information on the materials and systems of the sustainable school. Includes contributions by experts on approaches to the sites, systems, maintenance, and operation of sustainable schools. With a practical overview of how sustainability can be achieved in new and existing schools, and how to maintain this momentum in the years ahead, this important book provides architects with detailed guidance for designing healthier learning environments to help usher in a more promising future.


The Language of School Design

The Language of School Design

Author: Prakash Nair

Publisher: Education Design Architects

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780976267003

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The Language of School design is a seminal work because it defines a new graphic vocabulary that synthesizes learning research with best practice in school planning and design. But it is more than a book about ideas. It is also a practical tool and a must-have resource for all school stakeholders involved in planning, designing and constructing new and renovated schools and evaluating the educational adequacy of existing school facilities.


Designing for a Better World Starts at School

Designing for a Better World Starts at School

Author: Rosan Bosch

Publisher: Rosan Bosch Studio

Published: 2018-05-02

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 8799536129

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Humans are natural born learners and creative thinkers. Learning environments need to be inspiring spaces that support the diversity of learners and a multitude of learning scenarios. The first step is to dump the classroom.In this book, Rosan Bosch introduces her progressive design concepts for physical learning spaces: Mountain Top, Cave, Campfire, Watering Hole, Hands-on, and Movement.


Schools for the Future

Schools for the Future

Author: Rotraut Walden

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3658094052

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Drawing on the perspectives of architectural psychology, set against the historical development of school building in the United States, Japan and Germany, the authors’ vision is to create places where we would want to relive our own school days. The book takes the position that user design, control of stress factors and control of communication (privacy, retreats) should be allowed to modify the original architectural design to flexibly accommodate future changing requirements. The development and application of criteria for assessing functional, aesthetic, social-physical, ecological, organizational and economical aspects to various parts of the school complex call for a common language for the design process. The appendix presents 24 innovative schools from countries in five continents.


The NEW School Rules

The NEW School Rules

Author: Anthony Kim

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-01-06

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1544323204

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Actions to increase effectiveness of schools in a rapidly changing world Schools, in order to be nimble and stay relevant and impactful, need to abandon the rigid structures designed for less dynamic times. The NEW School Rules expands cutting-edge organizational design and modern management techniques into an operating system for empowering schools with the same agility and responsiveness so vital in the business world. 6 simple rules create a unified vision of responsiveness among educators Real life case studies illustrate responsive techniques implemented in a variety of educational demographics 15 experiments guide school and district leaders toward increased responsiveness in their faculty and staff


Education, Space and Urban Planning

Education, Space and Urban Planning

Author: Angela Million

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3319389998

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This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales. It contains insights that draw upon the fields of urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It brings together current thinking and practical experience from German and international perspectives. This discussion is organised in four segments: schools and the neighbourhood; education and the neighbourhood; education and the city and finally, education and the region. Contributors cover a wide range of contemporary and significant socio-political aspects of education over the last decade. They reinforce emergent thinking that space and its urban context are important dimensions of education. This book also underscores the need for more research in the relationships between education and urban development itself. Current urban planning does not fully connect our understanding in education with what we know in the spatial and planning sciences. Accordingly, this release is an early attempt to bring together a growing body of integrated and interdisciplinary reflection on education theory and practice.