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Posts and Interviews about Educational Theory, Pedagogy and how they relate to school design and architecture

Barbarian Education, state-evading learning and James Scott’s “Against the Grain”

Some thoughts about education and James C. Scott’s ‘Against the Grain’.

Against the Grain, Barbarian education, James C. Scott
Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow

A List of Museums of School, School Life and Education

A list – to be updated – of school museums (that is, museums of school life or buildings) in Europe and a few beyond.

Museums of Education, Museums of School
The Museum of School Life, Nerokourou, Crete

The Museum of School Life, Nerokourou, Crete

The old village primary school (1930-2000) in Nerokourou (Crete) is now the Museum of School Life (Μουσείο Σχολικής Ζωής) and striking for its reminders of the physicality of education and material technologies of teaching and learning.

Greece, Μουσείο Σχολικής Ζωής, Νεροκούρου, Museum of School Life Crete, Museums of Education, Museums of School, Nerokourou

An educational paradox: where beginner readers learn in school

As a collaborative* doctoral research student in the field of architecture and education, I’m often asked to explain what my … More

When School Architecture Meant System Architecture

In 1811, Joseph Lancaster publishes his Hints and Directions for Building, Fitting Up, and Arranging School Rooms, one of the … More

school architecture, system architecture

What are schools for? An interview with Gert Biesta on the learnification of school buildings and education.

Gert Biesta on school architecture and democracy, and learnification – a reductive reappraisal of education as learning.

architecture and language, classrooms, democracy, Gert Biesta, learnification, learning spaces

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