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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"School Design"”.
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A secondary school design for Pearisburg, Virginia
… a state of inadequacy for the growing County School population. Superintendent R.K. Johnson and the School Board of Giles County foresaw in 1950 the coming fate of the school situation and made a formal request to the State Superintendent of Public Institutions to make a study of the school …
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Methods to improve school design in Sierra Leone
Most schools in Sierra Leone are constructed using a standard design with little variation from building to building. They are relatively high-cost and have poor ventilation, lighting and thermal comfort. In January 2010, thirteen primary schools in Sierra Leone were analyzed in order to identify …
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Perceptions of Public High School Design Changes in Virginia Since the Implementation of a Profile of a Virginia Graduate
The design of school buildings has shifted over the past several decades in response to social and political trends, as well as shifts in educational philosophy. Despite the educational system's efforts to adapt teaching and learning to prepare students for the 21st-century workforce, the design of …
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Does the Degree of Implementation of the Components of the Middle School Design Relate to High-Stakes Assessment Scores in Grade 8 Reading and Math?
… implementation of the components of the middle-school design relate to high-stakes assessment scores in Grade 8 reading and math? There currently exists a conflict between the advocates of the middle-school components and those who support an abandonment of this philosophy and conceptual model …
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Negotiating place : community participation and design in the planning of public schools
Schools play key roles in land use, community development and public policy issues. The construction of new schools, in particular, has come to be seen as a critical growth factor with broad impacts. A participatory school design process is proposed as a model to plan, design and build schools that …
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Where do beginner readers read in the English, mainstream primary school and where could they read?
… readers read in the English, mainstream primary school and where could they read? Emma Jane Dyer This thesis explores design for the beginner reader in Year One by evaluating existing spaces in the English primary school and imagining new ones. Three significant gaps identified in the literature …
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The Impact Of Spatial Design On Teacher Communication: A Case Study
… is a pre- post case study in two elementary schools examining the impact that school design can have on the informal communication of teachers. In the fall of 2012, students and teachers from two schools in northeastern United States were moved from schools with traditional, double-loaded …
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Collective Co-Design: An Intrinsic Case Study To Explore Participatory Design Theory As An Applied Framework With Middle School Students In a Public School
… case study was to curate an operationalized school design framework connected to participatory design theory by teachers with students in a public-school setting. The aim of this study was to design an evidence-based framework for teachers to use with students when engaging in a co-design …
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A new learning environment: designing an urban school dedicated to the learner and the community at large
My project is the design of a primary school in an urban context with an interest in developing a school that speaks about new type of learning environments. This typology will address the challenges of designing a school in an urban context, Cape Town, while rethinking how schools are designed …
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Essex County Council primary schools (1973-1993): a design appraisal
The thesis is an appraisal of various design aspects of new and extended primary schools in Essex built between 1973 and 1993. The investigation method included a review of primary school design literature and County Council archives, interviews with Officers concerned with the design and operation …
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Planning for Technology in School Facilities
… for technology in existing, new, or renovated school facilities. The focus is to provide educators a technology profile to help with planning issues regarding school design and the integration of technology in school facilities. Very few counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia have a facility …
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A Portrait and Critical Analysis of the Structures, Practices and Culture of One Traditional High School
Study conclusions suggested a school design characterized by the following: a teacher-versus student-orientation; a tracking system based on student ability; the presence of simple and rigid, yet highly interconnected school structures, practices, and culture; a lack of organizational capacity for …
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Comfort analysis of differences in classroom designs between socioeconomic statuses
Classroom design has been ever changing, attempting to keep up with the new ideas about education and learning. As we learn more and more about how children learn, we adapt our learning styles with this new knowledge. Architecture is something that is meant to last for a while since construction …
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DEAF SPACE AND THE VISUAL WORLD - BUILDINGS THAT SPEAK: AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
… deaf. More frequently deaf and hard of hearing school children are attending mainstream public schools, in which deaf-friendly design is not well-understood or implemented. This work analyzes these principles and applies them to the design of a mainstream elementary school at a site within the …
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Empathetic Design: How Elementary School Environments Designed to Reduce Stress can Foster Inclusion of High Functioning Autistic Children
… This thesis introduces the concept of Empathetic Design, a design strategy possible only when empathy for the inhabitant is achieved by the designer. An Empathetic Designer is able to identify environmental stressors and can employ appropriate design strategies that reduce stress. Though this …
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Designing for privacy in the learning environment
… the general instructional areas of an elementary school, with the role of the architect in mind. Taking off from the open-plan school, the most recent trend in educational architecture, a case is made for building a range of private places in the school environment. A review of the literature …
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Educator isolation in middle school encore content areas : a case study
… centers around five encore educators in a middle school. These educators provide daily instruction in their specific content area; art, home economics, computers/technology, PE (Physical Education), and orchestra. The organizational structure enhances a sense of isolation among these educators. …
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School construction in Sierra Leone
… and encourage education by building permanent school structures. The aim of this thesis is not to just provide villages with an economical school design, but to inspire a new mentality towards architecture and a construction system that can adapt to a diverse range of situations and be applied …
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A study of the architecture and curriculum of Virginia high schools
… and the interior configurations of Virginia high schools, and to relate these designs to major curricular trends. This study, using historical research methods, will preserve Virginia's secondary educational institutions for future resource. A history of the high school in Virginia was developed …
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Innovative Educational Design: The Development of Autonomous Schools
<p>Innovative Educational Design: The Development of Autonomous Schools captures an educator’s journey in developing an economically integrated, urban Expeditionary Learning charter school, an autoethnography of an educator embracing an entrepreneurial spirit and traversing the years prior to …
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