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Grounds for learning : an exploration of the urban school landscape

The primary intent of this thesis is to demonstrate how the schoolyard, through physical
diversification focusing on a three-fold paradigmatic framework, can become a significant
educational environment able to support the physical, cognitive and developmental skills in
children. Research is used as a tool to inform and support the designs. Discussed in the first
two sections are the history and evolution of school grounds, play and the environment, the
effects of place-identity on self-identity, as well as the power of place in pedagogy. The design
framework is supported by precedent studies, intending to reflect the design principles,
programs, ideas and values of the ecological, curriculum-based and narrative landscape design
layers. The final master plan design is an amalgamation of these three layers, representing an
educational setting that will foster a dynamic interchange between children and their milieu.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11949
Date11 1900
CreatorsUjimoto, Lisa
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
RelationUBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/]

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