Keppie Design - Schools

What if...
Pupils didn’t move around
the school hourly from one
small square classroom,
along tight corridors to the
next?
If mass movement and
circulation is a major issue,
why not create bigger
general spaces that are open
and adaptable enough to
allow three or four teachers
to work on problem-based
learning ideas, with up to 60
kids in different sized groups.
Pupils would learn from each
other interactively in such
environments and only move
to study more specialised
subjects such as PE or the
Sciences.
There is often a conflict
between the idea of a school
being a place for transferring
a body of knowledge and
education itself being
an interactive process of
transferring skills. If we can
agree that pupils - simply
due to their years - are as yet
not fully formed and need to
learn skills that will prepare
them for adult life or further
education, then ‘place of
development’ could be an
alternative definition which is
equally valid.
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