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Interviews and posts that take a historical perspective on school buildings, education and design

In the Hills, on the Trail of a Radical Priest and Critical Pedagogy

Moving north from Florence you climb up and up, past Fiesole to a ridge formed by Mounts Calavana and Giovi … More

Barbiana, Barbiana School, Don Lorenzo Milani, Letter to a Teacher

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
Image of cover of De Carlo and Buncuga book

An Anarchic Take on Architecture, Space and Education – Giancarlo De Carlo and Franco Bunčuga’s Conversazioni su Architettura e Libertà

Some notes about a book of interviews with Italian architect and anarchist thinker Giancarlo De Carlo.

anarchism, Conversazioni su Architettura e Libertà, Franco Bunčuga, Giancarlo De Carlo, italian architecture, Team 10

What High Schools Look Like and Why

After 1968, James Ackerman, Giancarlo De Carlo and others questioned school design: why? why like this? This post revisits their questions.

educational design, educational purpose, Giancarlo De Carlo, high school architecture, James S. Ackerman, school design
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

Interview with Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, former British secretary of state for Education and Skills (2001-2) taught PE and Humanities … More

Baroness Yardley, Birmingham Yardley, classrooms, Education and Skills, Estelle Morris, House of Lords, MP, science laboratories, Secretary of State for Education, sports facilities

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