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An image from Ngram Viewer showing relative trends in the words 'education' and 'learning' between 1800 and 2008

The Changing Vocabulary of Education and its Spaces

A post exploring changes in the words used to talk about education e.g. the shift from “classroom” to “learning space”.

architecture and language, classrooms, learning spaces, new language of learning

Interview with Irene Lindsay

Irene Lindsay is the Assistant Head of a 2-form entry primary school in Raynes Park, London, which was refurbished by … More

acoustics, architects, classrooms, primary school, reading, reading corners

The importance of acoustics in learning: an interview with Shane Cryer, Ecophon

Shane Cryer manages the education sector in the UK and Ireland for Swedish acoustic experts, Ecophon. After a career in … More

acoustics, classrooms, design

Allowing for easy interaction: an interview with Hedwig Heinsman, DUS architects, Amsterdam

  Hedwig Heinsman is an architect who grew up in the Dutch Flevopolder and now lives and works in Amsterdam. … More

3-d printing, Canal House, classrooms, DUS architects, elementary school, Jenaplan, school architecture, school corridors, Tollweg co-op

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

Making Spaces, Forgetting Politics

Walls* are breaks (Vesely, 2013). They break into established categories of meaning and space and make new ones. They do … More

classifying by space, classrooms, learning spaces, school space, spaces and politics

Open Space Good, Closed Space Bad? Problems with Architecture and Language

In which Marie, a 12-year-old student, explains how large, open-plan spaces feel claustrophobic.

architecture and language, classrooms, open learning spaces

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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