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Dealing with Problems Environmentally
April 18, 2008
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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.



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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