Designing schools for quality: An international, case study-based review
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 240751
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.05.005
- Title of journal
- International Journal of Educational Development
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- First page
- 56
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0738-0593
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper presents the author’s original analysis of international school design standards, focusing specifically on the traditional primary-middle school classroom within a global context. It critiques the UNESCO-international design guidelines, which continue to significantly influence school planning and pedagogy. It is significant in using the author’s own field work observed case studies and international schools research findings to illustrate and evidence historic school design guidelines and contemporary case studies showing different, innovative responses to creating learning environments for children. The case studies include examples from Africa, Asia and Europe, and the paper provides a critical examination of educational policy in countries in various stages of economic development from the escuela neuva movement schools in Ecuador, to the SureStart learning family centres in the United Kingdom. This methodological approach to comparative research and use of an historical contextual framework has been particularly successful in ensuring the paper is both accessible and relevant to the various audiences that the journal’s readership covers. The IJED is an international journal that employs a double-blind peer review selection process.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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