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Planning and Designing Academic Library Learning Spaces: Expert Perspectives of Architects, Librarians, and Library Consultants. Project Information Literacy Research Report. The Practitioner Series
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Head, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2016
This paper identifies approaches, challenges, and best practices related to planning and designing today's academic library learning spaces. As part of the Project Information Literacy (PIL) Practitioner Series, qualitative data is presented from 49 interviews conducted with a sample of academic librarians, architects, and library consultants.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
The Decorated School: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the History of Art as Integral to the Design of Educational Environments
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Burke, Catherine – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
This article reports on the opening up of a new, rich seam of interdisciplinary research that brings together historians of education with historians of art and architecture to examine the meaning and incidence of "The Decorated School". It examines the origins of the idea of art as educator in the nineteenth century and discusses how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Art History, Educational Facilities Design
enVision > Connect > Create. How Collaborative Design Shapes an "Architecture of Place"
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Moroz, Jeff; Klassen, Ken – Educational Facility Planner, 2012
Hanover School Division (HSD) is located southeast of Winnipeg, Canada and is currently Manitoba's largest rural school division, with 7500 students in 18 schools. A recent wave of immigration has led to rapid growth in both numbers and diversity and the recent planning and construction of Clearspring Middle School in Steinbach is providing many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Immigration
Four Strong Schools: Developing a Sense of Place through School Architecture
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Upitis, Rena – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2007
The driving premise of this paper is that students should be schooled in built and natural environments that afford them ways of understanding of how their daily physical actions and social choices affect the earth. Views of prominent philosophers and scholars in support of this premise are described. Next, four cases illustrate how schools can…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Conservation (Environment), Physical Environment, Educational Environment
Comprehensive Bibliography on Child Care and Preschool Design. Architecture for Education.
Moore, Gary T., Comp. – 1994
Excellence in design of child care and other preschool facilities is an emerging issue in the architectural profession. This bibliography is intended to aid architects and other designers, child-care directors, policy makers, and researchers to locate the most up-to-date and best sources of design-relevant information. The bibliography is based on…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architectural Research, Architecture, Building Design
Modern Vernacular.
Taggart, Jim – Canadian Architect, 2002
Describes the design of the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in British Columbia, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on architects, consultants, and cost, as well as floor plans and photographs. Discusses how the design for this First Nations school blends aboriginal constructs and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Architectural Character, Architecture, Building Design