Linking architecture and education: sustainable design for learning environments
For the past forty years Anne Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result, she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design. She argues persuasively that architects must integrate their design knowledge with an understanding of the developmental needs of learners, while at the same time educators, parents, and students must broaden their awareness of the built, natural, and …
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- Full title :Linking architecture and education : sustainable design for learning environments / Anne Taylor with Katherine Enggass.
Summary
For the past forty years Anne Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result, she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design. She argues persuasively that architects must integrate their design knowledge with an understanding of the developmental needs of learners, while at the same time educators, parents, and students must broaden their awareness of the built, natural, and cultural environment to maximize the learning experience. In other words, schools and other environm.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication:Albuquerque
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 451 pages) : : color illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780826334091, 0826334091, 1283635321, 9781283635325, 6613947776, 9786613947772
- oclc:ocn779176966
- LC Classification:LB3205
- Dewey Decimal:727
Table of Contents
pt. 1. The philosophical framework behind the knowing eye -- pt. 2. Using an organizing system : planning for educational environments with the knowing eye -- pt. 3. Reading the three-dimensional textbook with the knowing eye -- pt. 4. Seeing the future of the learning environment with the knowing eye.
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