Dealing with Problems Environmentally

04/18/2008

Dealing with Problems Environmentally

To make a lovable school, industrious, inventive, liveable, documentable and communicable, a place of research, learning, recognition and reflection, where children, teachers and families feel well - is our point of arrival.
Loris Malaguzzi

In Exchange best-selling design guidebook, Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments that Work, author Jim Greenman frequently sites the pioneering thinking of Elizabeth Prescott. We recently republished an article that Prescott contributed to Exchange 30 years ago -- but which still as insightful today as it was then -- "The Physical Environment: Powerful Regulator of Experience." In this article Prescott proposed that there are five dimensions that one should consider in designing or evaluating a classroom environment:

Softness/Hardness
Open/Closed
Simple/Complex
Intrusive/Exclusive
High Mobility/Low Mobility

You can read this entire article on the home page of www.ChildCareExchange.com in the Resources for you FREE section.

Caring Spaces on Sale!

This week Jim Greenman's best selling, Caring Spaces: Learning Places -- Children's Environments that Work is on sale at a 20% discount on the Exchange web site.

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