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Description for School
Paperback. Part of the "Objekt" series, this book offers an analysis of the forms, operations and meanings of the school. Organized around the themes of time, space and place, it deals with the form and function of schools, and presents a global review of how design and architecture have kept pace with innovation in schools in the modern period. Series: Objekt. Num Pages: 208 pages, 78 black & white illustrations, 19 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMG; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognisable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building's modern growth on a global scale. Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help organise and discipline time and space for teachers and students, using methods ranging from bells to lines to lesson plans. They reveal the ways in which schools, by their actual physical situation - surrounded by swathes of green or butting ... Read more
As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognisable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building's modern growth on a global scale. Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help organise and discipline time and space for teachers and students, using methods ranging from bells to lines to lesson plans. They reveal the ways in which schools, by their actual physical situation - surrounded by swathes of green or butting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Objekt
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861893024
SKU
V9781861893024
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Catherine Burke
Ian Grosvenor is Professor of Urban Educational History at the University of Birmingham. Catherine Burke is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge. They co-authored The School I'd Like: Children and Young People's Reflections on an Education for the 21st Century (2003).
Reviews for School
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building can tell students who they are and what they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem. New York Review of Books