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Multidisciplinary Approach to Designing Space of Early Childhood Education Institutions as a Condition for High-Quality Education Process

Edita Slunjski ; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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The quality of education process in an early childhood education institution can be defined by several factors, including the creation of spatial environment. It has a significant impact on the children’s learning and education perspectives, as well as on the possibilities of children engaging in various social interactions. The affirmation of the multidisciplinary approach in the process of designing spatial environment of an early childhood education institution requires networking and cooperation among experts in the fields of pedagogy and architecture. Teachers, educators, architects, designers, landscape architects and other profiles of experts invest a joint effort in the process of developing, shaping, and designing the facility of an early childhood education institution and its spatial features. Including the educational ideas into the architectural design of an early childhood education institution enables prevention and/or overcoming of the barriers that have a negative effect on the quality of the process of education. Sensitizing the architects to a better understanding of the child’s perspective and the complex process of children’s education has a particularly important role in this process. It enables us to design spatial conditions that reflect the contemporary understanding of the child and the time spent in early childhood education institutions in which free choice, activities, exploration, discovery, movement and initiative of the children, and self-organization of their activities take the central position. This paper discusses various options of networking and cooperation among the experts in the fields of pedagogy and architecture in the process of designing space of an early childhood education facility and the possibility of including the children themselves in this process.

Ključne riječi

architect; early childhood education; educator; multidisciplinary approach; spatial environment

Hrčak ID:

137688

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/137688

Datum izdavanja:

25.2.2015.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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