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Colegios mas seguros a traves del diseno del medioambiente (Safer Schools through Environmental Design). ERIC Digest.
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Schneider, Tod – 2001
This digest in Spanish describes the key elements of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). CPTED is based on the recognition that the physical environment influences human behavior. It is different from conventional security measures, which many times are based on prohibitions, in that it focuses on desired behaviors and attempts…
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Safer Schools through Environmental Design. ERIC Digest Number 144.
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Schneider, Tod – 2001
This digest describes the key elements of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). CPTED is based on the recognition that the physical environment influences human behavior. It is different from conventional security measures, which many times are based on prohibitions, in that it focuses on desired behaviors and attempts to solve…
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Foucault and the Architecture of Surveillance: Creating Regimes of Power in Schools, Shrines, and Society
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Piro, Joseph M. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2008
Michel Foucault's critical studies concerning regimes of power are of special interest when applied to architecture. In particular, he warned of the hazards of building surveillance into architectural structures for the purpose of monitoring people and took as his historical exemplar English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon," a structure…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Architecture, Social Behavior, Educational Philosophy