02-02-2015, 10:32 AM
Classrooms, Learning Studios, Advisories&Small Learning Communities
The classroom is the most visible symbol of an educational philosophy. It is a philosophy that starts with the assumption that a pre-determined number of students will all learn the same thing at the same time from the same person in the same way in the same place for several hours each day.
A classroom's simplistic design also assumes that the significant part of a student's learning occurs in the transmission of knowledge from the teacher to the student in a somewhat linear fashion. The classroom model worked best from a control standpoint if the day itself could be broken down into neat little segments (45 minutes being the preferred period after which one activity would shut down and another would begin) and if the segmentation could be announced by bells that, over time, literally programmed the students to switch gears on command. The vast majority of school buildings are in fact cells-and-bells models.
Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools - Prakash Nair & Randall Fielding
http://www.designshare.com/images/TheLan...aryweb.pdf
The classroom is the most visible symbol of an educational philosophy. It is a philosophy that starts with the assumption that a pre-determined number of students will all learn the same thing at the same time from the same person in the same way in the same place for several hours each day.
A classroom's simplistic design also assumes that the significant part of a student's learning occurs in the transmission of knowledge from the teacher to the student in a somewhat linear fashion. The classroom model worked best from a control standpoint if the day itself could be broken down into neat little segments (45 minutes being the preferred period after which one activity would shut down and another would begin) and if the segmentation could be announced by bells that, over time, literally programmed the students to switch gears on command. The vast majority of school buildings are in fact cells-and-bells models.
Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools - Prakash Nair & Randall Fielding
http://www.designshare.com/images/TheLan...aryweb.pdf