Designing Schools To Reflect The Critical And Aesthetic Realms Of Learning
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The globalized world of the 21st century is based on interconnectedness. Learning programmes are increasingly borderless and global. What happens in classrooms can be defined as active, student centred approaches to schooling and teachers metamorphose into educators rather than instructors. The physical and intellectual spaces in our schools nee
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The globalized world of the 21st century is based on interconnectedness. Learning programmes are increasingly borderless and global. What happens in classrooms can be defined as active, student centred approaches to schooling and teachers metamorphose into educators rather than instructors. The physical and intellectual spaces in our schools need to be configured to enable this to happen.
The implications of these 21st Century directions in education on the design of any new school building are significant in that built environments impact behaviour. The Brisbane Girls Grammar School Creative Learning Centre reflects this new reality of a critical and aesthetic realm of learning. The physical spaces reflect the academic imperatives.
Teachers prepare their students to navigate the world. To do this they must understand the knowledge society in which their students live and work. Teachers must demonstrate creativity and flexibility. These are the qualities that will be required of their students in order to drive the knowledge economy.
Within the Creative Learning Centre Arts experiences enable students to become competent co constructors of knowledge and gain proficiency in the use and translation of those symbol systems that enable them to understand, sensually, the world around them. These experiences are purposeful and meaningful to them because they reflect the authenticity of their own world knowledge.