Children’s spaces

Summary

Titles

• Full Title: Children's spaces/ Mark Dudek.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Children's Spaces; Contents; Introduction; 1 Talking and listening to children; 2 Designing for play; 3 Place making and change in learning environments; 4 The school building as third teacher; 5 The classroom is a microcosm of the world; 6 The classroom as an evolving landscape; 7 The schools we'd like: young people's participation in architecture; 8 Digital landscapes -- the new media playground; 9 Spaces without children; 10 Razor blades and teddy bears -- the health and safety protocol; 11 The sustainable landscape; 12 The edible landscape of school; Index; Colour plate.
• English.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 9781429413350; 1429413352; 0080454593; 9780080454597; 9781136421907; 1136421904; 9781136421945; 1136421947; 9781136421952; 1136421955; 1280638664; 9781280638664; 9786610638666; 6610638667
• Doi: 10.4324/9780080454597
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)84838478

Publication Statement

• Place: Amsterdam ; London
• Publisher: Elsevier/Architectural Press
• Date: 2005

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :
• Illustrations: illustrations (some color), maps

Table Of Contents

• Cover; Children's Spaces; Contents; Introduction; 1 Talking and listening to children; 2 Designing for play; 3 Place making and change in learning environments; 4 The school building as third teacher; 5 The classroom is a microcosm of the world; 6 The classroom as an evolving landscape; 7 The schools we'd like: young people's participation in architecture; 8 Digital landscapes -- the new media playground; 9 Spaces without children; 10 Razor blades and teddy bears -- the health and safety protocol; 11 The sustainable landscape; 12 The edible landscape of school; Index; Colour plate.

Summary

• This collection of essays is concerned with the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit, as well as with architecture and landscape architecture. International examples of innovative childcare practice are illustrated together with the design processes which informed their development. The emphasis here is on new and experimental childcare projects which set-out to reassert the rights of children to participate in a complex multi-faceted world, which is no longer available to them, unless under adult supervision. Research supports in depth recommendations regarding t.

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