Learning Environment
H.S. Shams Dolatabadi; F. Mozaffar; N. Malek; B. Saleh Sedghpour
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Background and Objective:The school yard plays an important role in the formation of the student's personality by providing opportunities for various activities, especially in the early stages of the formation of their social abilities. Creating a sense of belonging to the school can have a significant ...
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Background and Objective:The school yard plays an important role in the formation of the student's personality by providing opportunities for various activities, especially in the early stages of the formation of their social abilities. Creating a sense of belonging to the school can have a significant impact on the existence and identity of students. This feeling is created by repeated connection with the space and as a result of its coordination with the behavioral habits and mental pattern and potential and actual abilities of the person, the person feels belonged to the space more- this maximizes especially when the place belongs to a group (e.g. school). In other words, a person can only be socially and emotionally effective after meeting his or her needs and develop his or her existential capacity for growth. The aim of the study is to provide guidelines to design children’s open spaces in primary school based on promotion of learning and Emotional intelligence. Methods: An exploratory research is conducted based on both qualitative-quantitative methods, using Delphi in the primer part. Consequently, professionals were interviewed in an unstructured way in the field of landscape architecture and Psychology (emotional intelligence). Then, with the techniques of open and axial coding the content table is created. The questionnaire is also organized in two rounds. Network sampling method (snowball) on the sample size of 17 professionals is used. The data were analyzed using Q factor analysis. Findings: At the end, the most affecting elements on the Emotional Intelligence in process of learning in open primary school spaces are consist of; personal, social, design, physical spaces, Child Participation in design of their spaces and environmental psychology dimensions. Conclusion: Research has been formed around extracting the principles of designing the open space of the school according to learning and emotional intelligence. According to experts, some individual, social, natural and physical characteristics, participation in the creation of space, design and psychology of the environment are able to facilitate the conditions for the promotion of emotional intelligence and learning. In this way, by using some space features and attributes in the school yard, children's presence and belonging to the outdoor space can be aided. In the meantime, factors such as diversity of space and performance, using multifunctional spaces and flexibility also affect this process. It should be noted that the open space of the school is both a social and physical place. This means that not only does it create a space for the main function of the school, ie environmental and cognitive learning, but it also creates a space for a variety of social interactions, cultural learning and emotional learning skills through
Architecture
S. Azemati; F. Mozaffar; B. Saleh Sedgh Pour; S.B. Hosseini
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Background and Objectives:Today, the issue of teaching and learning patterns and group activities is one of the issues of interest in areas related to education in universities. How to achieve teaching-learning patterns has gained a special place among experts. In recent years, due to the increasing ...
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Background and Objectives:Today, the issue of teaching and learning patterns and group activities is one of the issues of interest in areas related to education in universities. How to achieve teaching-learning patterns has gained a special place among experts. In recent years, due to the increasing growth and scope of changes in educational methods, adapting the learning environment to all aspects of learner needs, has been the focus of education professionals. Because the physical environment, due to its structure, can strengthen or weaken the interactions and subsequent learning process, it is believed that new approaches are required for movement, teamwork and student dynamism. Therefore, defining the needs and how to organize the context in which such learning can emerge is of particular importance. Considering the effect that academic spaces can have on the audience and users of these spaces, the present study aims to provide guidelines for designing open university spaces based on increasing the vitality and social interactions among users and improving the level of education among them. The present research tries to identify the factors affecting the promotion of vitality and social interactions from the users' perspective, drawing the correlation between these factors in an analytical model. In the current study, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used. Method and Materials: After formulating the contents of the content table and the questionnaire, the sample size based on Klein's views reached 341 according to the number of questionnaires. Therefore, students from architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and civil engineering at Iranian universities were randomly selected by cluster sampling. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 22 using R factor analysis. The model was developed by Amos. Findings: The results of this research indicated that social, physical, designing and psychological dimensions of the environment are influential. Conclusion: According to the results of previous studies and the present study, the existence of social, physical, design and environmental traits in the collective spaces of the university, can facilitate the necessary conditions to increase vitality, sociability and group activities. In this way, the existence of a spatial trait in open university public spaces, by increasing the possibility of vitality, facilitates the process of creativity and innovation for researchers and leads to socialization. Also, increasing the desire to do group and group activities and the possibility of solving problems in groups leads to improving the level of education among users. A review of this research reveals the fact that human behavior, collisions, and the use of space can be influenced by space and spatial communication, and ultimately lead to social vitality in collective centers.
