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Category: Futures of Education

How schools, education and learning might change in the future, and what the idea of the future means for education and school

Precious spaces in schools, how can we make them work for everyone?

The aim of this post is to consider the value of small rooms in schools with the intention of starting … More

Education in the time of Covid-19: who gets to decide and when? A call for increased participation in the design and adaptation of education and schools

This is a guest post by Dr Tom Bellfield, a part 2 architectural assistant at SCABAL, an architecture practice specialising … More

Anyone for online hopscotch? Why school space (still) matters in the digital age.

This is a guest post by Dr Pamela Woolner, Senior Lecturer in Education at Newcastle University. Pam has been researching … More

Gert Biesta, Keri Facer, Neil Selwyn

Mythologies of learning spaces in the time of Covid-19

The closure of many schools around the world in the past few months has given us a unique opportunity to … More

'Didactics' by Professor Catherine Burke

Mythologies of education in the time of Covid-19

This is a guest post by Catherine Burke, Professor Emerita of the History of Education at the University of Cambridge. … More

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

Giancarlo De Carlo: How to Keep Educational Architecture Human or Creative Anti-Institutionalism

A talk I gave at the Bartlett’s Spatial Engagement Network meeting about Anarchism, Education and Space on the architect Giancarlo De Carlo.

anarchism, architecture, Colin Ward, Giancarlo De Carlo

Designing the ‘in-between’: Alison Clark’s micro-history of a welfare room

“School design, which is finely tuned to the full range of activities and needs of adults and children who inhabit … More

design, in-between, School

3 Cambridge Seminars, 2018: Educational Aims and Values through Architecture

3 Seminars at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University exploring the role of the built environment in education and schools.

Architecture and Education, Cambridge, Educational Aims and Values through Architecture, Seminars

Schools of Tomorrow but Rooted in Society – an Interview with Silvia Fehrmann of Berlin’s HKW

An interview with Silvia Fehrmann, curator of HKW’s conference “Schools of Tomorrow” on schools and society.

Conference, HKW, John Dewey, schools of tomorrow, silvia fehrmann

Pearson, IBM Watson and cognitive enhancement technologies in education

Originally posted on code acts in education:
Ben Williamson Image: Atomic Taco The world’s largest edu-business, Pearson, partnered with one of the world’s…

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

Futures for English School Design

The following is a list of things we learned during the Education Estates conference, held in Manchester on 10-11th November … More

education, Education Estates, school design

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