A short sketch on development of idea of schools.....and how they were designed through history . Changes in the way learning is perceived and its architectural expression.
2. Pre industrial Societies--
• No concept of childhood
• 13 yrs is adult
• Low productivity low life expectancy..
• No school
• By mentoring was knowledge passed.
Current definition----grouping students together in a centralized location for
learning..Wikipedia
3. Gurukula system- Guru stayed with students. Before the British
came was the norm…teaching happened in temples, mosques,
villages—most subjects were taught…arithmetic,
language,religion….
5. • Then came religions-organized kinds-going by
a book.
• Wanting to expand need followers
• Need trainers….
6. Madrasa-i al-Nizamiyya
Khargird, Iran ( Arch Net)
Islam was another culture that developed a school system in the
modern sense of the word. Emphasis was put on knowledge, which
required a systematic way of teaching and spreading knowledge, and
purpose-built structures…..(Wikepedia)
7. Loyola School, Chennai, India — run by the Catholic Diocese of
Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing
modern schools in India. Wikipedia
8. • Industrialization made people come to cities—They
were employed in production-repetitive work…
• Poverty & increase in population went hand in hand
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• Exploitation --- children as young as 4 yrs. were
employed--
India has the highest number of child
labourers working in very excruciating
circumstances –one being the brick kilns
almost as slaves.
9. Humanism and urbanization and Great Depression
changed he laws with respect to employment of
children in factories----
So spaces for children----
Spaces for learning and play built with specific
purpose..
“Factories
created to produce things led to factories to produce
learning” (Tanner & Lackney, 2005; Weisser, 2006)
11. Wiley Elementary School -1899-1924-did not have a playground. The road
was policed during breaks and traffic stopped to allow pupil to play.
12. Waldschule, Charlottenburg, Germany. Classroom and dining sheds.
Photograph obtained from 'Designing Modern Childhoods', p.110.
The first open school in Germany…
A disease changed the form of closed classrooms
to open air classrooms-
Cure for Tuberculosis-- required children to be in
open spaces –fresh air….
13. Uffculme Open-Air School, Birmingham, Great Britain, classroom. Photograph obtained
from 'Designing Modern Childhoods', p.114.
20. Then came different ways
• Of looking at education---
• Open schools
• Waldorf Schools
• Montessory
• Emilio Reggio
21. Waldorf schools
• Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy.
Its pedagogy emphasizes the role of
imagination in learning, striving to integrate
holistically the intellectual, practical, and
artistic development of pupils.
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29. Reggio Emelia
• A town in Italy where the system was
developed.
• Community is the teacher of the child
• Curriculum developed as to what the
community needs
• School like a small town.