Making Education: Material School Design and Educational Governance

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This book brings together the notions of material school design and educational governance in the first such text to address this critical interrelationship in any depth. In addressing the issue of governance through analysing current and historical material school designs, it looks at the intersection of politics, economics, aesthetics and pedagogical ideas and practices. More specifically, it explores and unfolds educational governance as it is constituted, materialized and transformed in and through material school designs. It does so by studying a range of issues: from the material and aesthetic language of schooling to the design of the built environment, from spatial organization to the furnishing and equipment of classrooms, and from technologies of regulation to the incorporation of tools of learning. The book presents examples from Europe, Latin and Central America and the United States, and relates to the past, present and future of governance and school design. It focuses on design processes and on designers/architects and people involved in the planning of school design, as well as on school leaders, teachers and pupils adopting, inhabiting and re-shaping them in everyday school life. Furthermore, the book discusses how to study governance by material school design, and how to act upon governance by material design on wishful, actual and ethical terms. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Making Education: Governance by Design (Ian Grosvenor, Lisa Rosén Rasmussen)....Pages 1-30 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Making the Schoolyard: Recess, Recreation, Play, and Other Pedagogical Incentives to Regulate Outdoor School Spaces in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden (Björn Norlin)....Pages 33-48 Democratic Schools for an Authoritarian Regime: Portuguese Educational and Architectural Experiences in the 1960s (Gonçalo Canto Moniz)....Pages 49-70 Design Features of Icelandic School Buildings: How Do They Reflect Changes in Educational Governance and Daily School Practice? (Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, Torfi Hjartarson)....Pages 71-91 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 Beyond the Educational Visions of the State: The Construction of School Buildings in Rural Nineteenth-Century Sweden (Johannes Westberg)....Pages 95-117 Creative Discipline in Education and Architecture: Story of a School (Thomas Bellfield, Catherine Burke, Dominic Cullinan, Emma Dyer, Karolina Szynalska)....Pages 119-136 Design As a Social Practice (Harry Daniels, Hau Ming Tse)....Pages 137-156 Boredom and Classroom Design: The Affective Economies of School Engagement (Noah W. Sobe)....Pages 157-169 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 The Digital Classroom: A Historical Consideration on the Redesigning of the Contexts of Learning (Inés Dussel)....Pages 173-196 Governing Education Through The Future (Keri Facer)....Pages 197-210 Front Matter ....Pages 211-211 Thinking About Architecture and Governance: A Postscript (Ning de Coninck-Smith)....Pages 213-219