Overview
- Presents in-depth research on how school facilities for pre-teens can be renewed to accommodate new teaching methods
- Documents the development of a participatory process for evaluation of problems and needs relating to school facilities
- Provides a simplified toolbox for operability assessment of the built environment in middle school buildings
Part of the book series: Research for Development (REDE)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Renewing Strategies for Existing Schools
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Updating Knowledge of Middle Schools
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Supporting School Communities’ Planning
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About this book
This book draws on important original transdisciplinary research to address a wide range of issues relating to the remodeling of existing schools for pre-teenagers to fit them to various novel teaching models (e.g. collaborative learning, ICT integration, and out-of-classroom working) and to create effective educational environments for the future.
The strong relationship between people’s wellbeing, physical environment and student learning in schools has already been extensively studied in international research. At the same time, a number of different scenarios of possible innovations are now emerging, and these require conscious choices in terms of designing both the ways and the places where educational processes can be developed.
The principal focus of this research was the relationship between infrastructure, activities, and school communities.The book is divided into three sections, the first of which discusses conceptual aspects and outlines innovativerenewal strategies. The second section describes a participatory research process developed in five case studies of lower-secondary or middle schools with the aim of updating our knowledge about such schools and identifying emerging issues. The last section presents case studies, operational tools, and design strategies that aid decision-making and support interventions to renew school facilities. The book is intended mainly for scholars of architecture and education, but is also of interest to a wider readership, including principals, teachers, designers, decision-makers in school communities, and heads of municipal education departments.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Renewing Middle School Facilities
Editors: Maria Fianchini
Series Title: Research for Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19629-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19628-8Published: 25 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19631-8Published: 25 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19629-5Published: 11 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-7300
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7319
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 250
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Schools and Schooling, Social Work and Community Development, Building Types and Functions, Knowledge Management, Building Construction and Design