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Early Childhood Facilities. Educational Facilities Review Series Number 9.

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Title: Early Childhood Facilities. Educational Facilities Review Series Number 9.
Authors: Baas, Alan M., ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 12
Publication Date: 1972
Sponsoring Agency: National Center for Educational Research and Development (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC.
Contract Number: OEC-0-8-080353-3514
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Child Development Centers, Design Requirements, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities, Environmental Influences, Facility Planning, Found Spaces, Literature Reviews, Nursery Schools, Open Plan Schools, Preschool Education
Abstract: The literature reviewed here indicates that all environments are occasions for learning and that the open plan approach to school design can best provide for fluid interaction between the child and his physical surroundings. The idea of enhancing a learning process through enhancing the physical environment is not new. What is new, however, is an increasing awareness of the extent to which individual differences among children relate to the ways in which they learn in any given environment. Accordingly, writers more often seek to offer architectural suggestions and to explicate educational rationales than to offer guaranteed solutions and philosophies. Topics covered in this review include vitalizing the environment, realizing the concept, planning and standards, resources, and bibliographies. Twenty of the cited documents are available from EDRS. (Author)
Journal Code: RIEAPR1973
Entry Date: 1973
Accession Number: ED070138
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The literature reviewed here indicates that all environments are occasions for learning and that the open plan approach to school design can best provide for fluid interaction between the child and his physical surroundings. The idea of enhancing a learning process through enhancing the physical environment is not new. What is new, however, is an increasing awareness of the extent to which individual differences among children relate to the ways in which they learn in any given environment. Accordingly, writers more often seek to offer architectural suggestions and to explicate educational rationales than to offer guaranteed solutions and philosophies. Topics covered in this review include vitalizing the environment, realizing the concept, planning and standards, resources, and bibliographies. Twenty of the cited documents are available from EDRS. (Author)