Thresholds of Identity: Revitalizing Urban Learning Environments for Children

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Thresholds of Identity: Revitalizing Urban Learning Environments for Children

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: Thresholds of Identity: Revitalizing Urban Learning Environments for Children

creator: Melissa Allen

subject: Education, Primary; Thresholds (Architecture); School buildings, Designs and plans; Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize nomination (2020)

description: For education, the time has come to reconsider how teaching and learning occurs during the twenty-first century in the United States. School buildings and the methods of education taking place inside of them have become standardized, outgrown, and outdated. Today, child-centric learning environments must be strongly considered as opposed to pretending that every child learns and operates in the same regulated way. Furthermore, the architecture containing these environments should reflect a similar language to the students, teachers, and communities in order to encourage a sense of progression and innovation. These issues are especially prevalent with inner-city schools across the country, where the majority of children attending are already placed at a disadvantage. Large quantities of students are often shoved into mega schools, not receiving the individualized attention they deserve. All in all, schools need to be recognized as places of becoming. Once education and architecture work successfully hand in hand, they are capable of shaping positive identities for individuals as well as communities.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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