Khurana, Aashna
Published in
Frontiers in Education
The term “Universal Design for Learning (UDL)” is derived from “Universal Design,” which is commonly used in the field of architecture, and focuses on proactive designing of the infrastructure that is accessible to all the users, regardless of their age, sex, abilities, etc. When the universal design approach is implemented in education, it focuses...
Brink, Henk W Loomans, Marcel G L C Mobach, Mark P Kort, Helianthe S M
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Indoor air
This study reports the outcomes of a systematic literature review, which aims to determine the influence of four indoor environmental parameters - indoor air, thermal, acoustic, and lighting conditions -on the quality of teaching and learning and on students' academic achievement in schools for higher education, defined as education at a college or...
Rönnlund, Maria Bergström, Peter Tieva, Åse
This study highlights how 20 Swedish principals, school managers and architects involved in planning, construction and reconstruction of primary and secondary school buildings at regional, municipal and local levels represent good learning environments. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, the analysis focuses on how the stakeholders understand t...
Szynalska, Karolina
Our understanding of school building design in relation to its effects on learning is surprisingly underdeveloped. This is due to the complex nature of the environments, the lack of consensus about the criteria for their pedagogical assessment, and attendant methodological challenges. By using theoretical concepts from developmental psychology and ...
Trojanowska, Monika
Published in
Technical Transactions
Modern schools face numerous challenges. They need to teach children about the need for sustainable development. Thus, school buildings and premises should be designed as living examples of the pursuit of sustainability. Moreover, green school grounds have the potential to become health-affirming landscapes. This paper discusses the close relations...
newton, clare backhouse, sarah aibinu, ajibade cleveland, benjamin crawford, robert holzer, dominik soccio, philippa kvan, thomas
While relocatable, prefabricated learning environments have formed an important component of school infrastructure in Australia, prefabrication for permanent school buildings is a new and emerging field. This review of prefabrication for schools is timely. In 2017, Australia’s two largest state education departments committed to prefabrication prog...
Barrett, Peter Davies, Fay Zhang, Yufan Barrett, Lucinda
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Environment and behavior
The Holistic Evidence and Design (HEAD) study of U.K. primary schools sought to isolate the impact of the physical design of classrooms on the learning progress of pupils aged from 5 to 11 years (U.S. kindergarten to fifth grade). One hundred fifty-three classrooms were assessed and links made to the learning of the 3,766 pupils in them. Through mu...
Hobday, Richard
Published in
Perspectives in public health
A century ago, it was widely believed that high levels of daylight in classrooms could prevent myopia, and as such, education departments built schools with large windows to try to stop children becoming short-sighted. This practice continued until the 1960s, from which time myopia was believed to be an inherited condition. In the years that follow...
Senior, Elizabeth
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Global health promotion
This article reports on the planning, implementation and evaluation of an intervention to improve school students' experience of using the school toilet in a primary school in Melbourne, Australia. 20 students from grades 2-6 participated in focus groups, to discuss what they valued about the school and raise awareness of issues they were not happy...
Gaynor, Dónal
This essay uses a case study to examine in a particular school the nature of these interactions. By examining this case using ethnographic methods including walking tours and interviews the essay gains an insight into how the physical environment interacts with the learning environment in the school. The research identifies four main points of inte...
