1st Edition

The English School Its Architecture and Organization, Volume II 1870-1970

By Malcolm Seaborne, Roy Lowe Copyright 1977
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

Britain has a rich heritage of school buildings dating from the later Middle Ages to the present day. While some of these schools have attracted the attention of architectural historians, they have not previously been considered from the educational viewpoint. Even schools of little or no architectural interest are important sociologically, since the changing architecture of schools reflects... Read more

Preface.  Acknowledgments.  Part 1: The Board School Era 1870 – 1902  1. The Schools in Transition  2. The Elementary Schools  3. The Secondary Schools  Part 2: Medical Influence on School Design 1902 – 1914  4. Poverty, School Hygiene and Curricular Change  5. Elementary Education  6. Secondary Education  Part 3: Schools and the Economy 1914 – 1939  7. School Building and the Economy  8. The Reorganization of Elementary Education  9. Secondary-school Building  Part 4: A New Architecture for Education 1944 – 1970  10. The Economic and Administrative Background  11. The Design of Post-war Primary Schools  12. The Design of Post-war Secondary Schools.  Bibliography.  The Plates.  Index.

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Malcolm Seaborne and Roy Lowe