Learning Spaces in Africa: Critical Histories to 21st Century Challenges and Change

ISBN-13: 9780367734251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Ola Uduku

Opis

Focusing on West and Southern Africa, this book provides a comprehensive historical analysis of school building design, and then examines contemporary issues facing school design and delivery in the early 21st Century. It concludes by arguing that learning spaces design is central to a wider discussion about the changing approach to education pedag

Spis treści

Foreword  1. School Design and Planning in Africa: An Introduction  2. School Design in Africa: The History  3. Historical School Design case Studies  4. African Schools in the 21st Century  5. Contemporary School Design Case Studies  6. Conclusions: Education Futures for Africa  Afterword

O autorze

Ola Uduku is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture, UK. She completed MPhil and PhD degrees in Architecture at the University of Cambridge focusing on School Design in Nigeria and has taught at Liverpool, Strathclyde and Edinburgh universities. She has written on and researched extensively into the history of school design and its influence on education in Africa and has research interests in contested urbanism, West African modernist architecture, passive design and thermal comfort in the tropics.