Pre-education and meeting: Pedagogical and architectural drivers of the emergence of Basisschool typology through case study: Basisschool Airborne

In 1980, the Primary Education Act was revised. One of the most important decisions was to combine kindergarten and primary school into a new type of pre and primary education institution: basisschool. In the existing literature, there were few clues about the backgrounds, drivers, and consequences. Was the new type of educational institution...

The Individual and the Collective in the Primary School Buildings of Jan Verhoeven: How Contrasting Concepts Interrelate

According to Jan Verhoeven, the individual and the collective are the most important characteristics of his designs for primary school buildings. However, no literature focuses on this theme. Therefore this dissertation does concentrate on how Verhoeven portrays the individual and the collective in his school buildings. First, the theme is...

Architectuur van het montessorionderwijs: Onderzoek naar de relatie tussen de ideologie van het montessorionderwijs en de architectuur van basisscholen

Het montessorionderwijs is een onderwijssoort met een pedagogische grondslag. In dit onderzoek staat de volgende vraag centraal: in hoeverre is de ideologie van het montessorionderwijs vertegenwoordigd in de architectuur van basisscholen in Nederland? Met behulp van literatuur is uiteengezet wat de ideologie van het montessorionderwijs inhoudt...

How focus creates engagement in Primary Design and Technology Education: The effect of well-defined tasks and joint presentations on a class of nine to twelve years old pupils

During a Design and Technology class, engagement is both required to start creative hands-on work and a sign of pupil’s creative thinking. To find ways to achieve engagement, we can look to the Montessori tradition. Due to the fact that learning is regarded as feeding insight through experimenting, tasks have to offer pupils the opportunity to...

Redefining Centraal Beheer: A Montessori Education Center

This project seeks to give new purpose to the Centraal Beheer building in Apeldoorn, designed by Herman Hertzberger, by introducing a new Montessori Education program, containing a Primary School and Secondary School. Through interventions this design aims to redefine the spatial structure of Centraal Beheer, to create a well functioning...

Attention and Action during the Design and Technology lesson: by fine-tuning task characteristics

In this paper, pupils’ design behaviour is regarded as an expression of active knowledge acquisition. Four cases of building a task structure, which supports effective discovery learning, were investigated. We focus on simple characteristics in a model to explain the effects of the structure on task execution. It reconciles<br/>the advantages of...

A general understanding of shape grammar for the application in architectural design / Een generiek begrip van shape grammar als de toepassing in een architectonisch ontwerpproces van een Montessori lyceum in Amersfoort

Shape grammars are systems of transformational rules that describe the design of a shape. Most studies towards the application of shape grammar are analytical in describing a specific building style. The main part of this research will describe a comparison of the rule systems and rule structures of four different grammars: the Prairie house,...