Smart Green Schools Re-placing flexibility: an investigation into flexibility in learning spaces and learning Woodman, K. (2011) Pedagogical approaches in education are currently moving from teacher-directed, didactic, and instructionalist towards student-centred, personalised, and constructivist. As a result, classrooms are changing from enclosed, rectangular, repetitive cells to open, connected, flexible learning spaces. The term flexibility has become inseparable from learning spaces. It is employed extensively by those involved ...
Smart Green Schools Smart Green Schools The Unofficial Overview Newton, C | Hes, D | Dovey, K | Fisher, K | Wilks, S | Cleveland, B | Woodman, K. (2010) The Smart Green Schools project, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant (2007-2010), investigated the influence of innovative and sustainable school building designs on middle school education in Victoria focussing on understanding the links between design, sustainability, pedagogy and Information Communication Technology (ICT) within 21st century learning spaces. The projects’ ...
Smart Green Schools TAKE 8 Learning Spaces: The transformation of educational spaces for the 21st century Atkin, J | Chester, M | Cleveland, B | Culkin, M | Calzini, J. | Davies, M | Featherston, M | Fisher, K | Goddard, T | Hes, D | Jamieson, P | Leonard, R | London, G | Newton, C | Salagaras, S | Stewart, P | Sutton, L | Wilks, S | Woodman, K. (2009) TAKE 8 explores the intersection between architecture and education with a focus on Australia. Under the title of Learning Spaces, the editors have asked researchers and practitioners from both education and architecture to contribute their reflections on the relationship between learning and physical space. TAKE 8 Learning Spaces has grown ...
Smart Green Schools Bridging School Cultures: Designing Shared Resource Schools Chester, M. (2009) Max Chester has designed schools over many years for diverse client groups. This paper begins with an interpretation of the various school sectors and their funding relationships with government bodies. He describes an intense personal learning experience as he undertook his first commission for an Islamic school. While Max advocates ...
Smart Green Schools Equitable pedagogical spaces: teaching and learning environments that support personalisation of the learning experience Cleveland, B. (2009) This paper introduces the concept of equitable pedagogical spaces and discusses the potential educational gains that may result from the creation of physical learning environments that are designed to facilitate equity of instruction. Incorporating Monahan's concept of 'built pedagogy', and informed by work in constructivist educational theory by Dewey, Gardiner, ...
Smart Green Schools Learning from past experiences: School building design in the 1970s and today Cleveland, B | Woodman, K. (2009) This paper is co-written by Ben Cleveland, an educator and Ken Woodman, an architect who were awarded APAI scholarships to undertake postgraduate study as part of the Smart Green Schools’ Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (2008–2011). At the midway point through the three-year research program, the authors reflect on the ...
Smart Green Schools Architecture, Design and Sustainability Culkin, M | Leonard, R | Atkin, J. (2009) Dandenong High School is the amalgamation of three existing schools into a new ‘Schools within Schools’, SWIS, model opening stage 1 of 3 stages in 2009. In this interview, the principal, the architect, interior architect and ‘education architect’ unpick the process of transformation that resulted in a school model where ...
Smart Green Schools The Interplay of Design and Learning, The Experience of BSF Davies, M. (2009) In this paper, Mike Davies teases out the issues around curriculum and learning that are influencing the transformation of schooling and the school environments within the context of the UK. Acknowledging that there are many options for how schools might best evolve, the paper gives both educators and designers a ...
Smart Green Schools Dandenong High School Featherston, M. (2009) This paper complements the accompanying interview on Dandenong High School. Mary Featherston is a design consultant specialising in the design of schools. She is known for her intensive work, with both students and teachers, to develop bespoke learning environments that support a range of learning modalities. In this paper, Mary ...
Smart Green Schools Linking Pedagogy and Architecture Goddard, T. (2009) Ty Goddard is Director of the British Council for School Environments. In late 2008, Ty came to Australia for some months contributing his expertise to the Smart Green Schools’ team but also visiting schools and speaking with educators and designers. In this interview, Ty brings an outsider’s perspective on school ...