1st Edition
Learning Spaces in Africa Critical Histories to 21st Century Challenges and Change
By Ola Uduku
Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
33 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
33 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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With a key UN Sustainable Development Goal for 2030 being to make basic education available to all the world’s children, Learning Spaces in Africa explores the architectural, socio-political and economic policy factors that have contributed to school design, the main spaces for education and learning in Africa. It traces the development of school building design, focusing on Western and... Read more
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
Biography
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.
