This book brings together the notions of material school design and educational governance in the first such text to address this critical interrelationship in any depth. In addressing the issue of governance through analysing current and historical material school designs, it looks at the intersection of politics, economics, aesthetics and pedagogical ideas and practices. More specifically, it explores and unfolds educational governance as it is constituted, materialized and transformed in and through material school designs. It does so by studying a range of issues: from the material and aesthetic language of schooling to the design of the built environment, from spatial organization to the furnishing and equipment of classrooms, and from technologies of regulation to the incorporation of tools of learning. The book presents examples from Europe, Latin and Central America and the United States, and relates to the past, present and future of governance and school design. It focuses on design processes and on designers/architects and people involved in the planning of school design, as well as on school leaders, teachers and pupils adopting, inhabiting and re-shaping them in everyday school life. Furthermore, the book discusses how to study governance by material school design, and how to act upon governance by material design on wishful, actual and ethical terms.

Explicitly scrutinizes the relations between governance and material school design Suggests various methodological and theoretical approaches Addresses the dynamic interconnections between past, present and educational futures Sheds light on the complex interactions between political and pedagogical ideas, processes of construction and building, aesthetics and practices of everyday school practices

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1. Making Education: Governance by Design; Ian Grosvenor and Lisa Rosén Rasmussen.- PART I: Entanglements of Pedagogy, Politics and Material Design .- 2. Making the Schoolyard: Recess, Recreations, Play, and Other Pedagogical Initiatives to Regulate Outdoor Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Sweden; Björn Norlin.- 3. Democratic Schools for an Authoritarian Regime: Portuguese Educational and Architectural Experiences in the 1960s; Gonçalo Canto Moniz.- 4. Design Features of Icelandic School Buildings: How do They Reflect Changes in Educational Governance and Daily School Practice?; Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir and Torfi Hjartarson.- PART II: Making of Educational Places, Peoples, and Procedures/Practices .- 5. Beyond the Educational Visions of the State: The Construction of School Buildings in Rural Nineteenth Century Sweden; Johannes Westberg.- 6. Creative Discipline in Education and Architecture: Story of a School; Tom Bellfield, Catherine Burke, Dominic Cullinan, Emma Dyer and Karolina Szynalska.- 7. Design as a Social Practice; Harry Daniels and Hau Ming Tse.- 8. Boredom and Classroom Design: the Affective Economies of School Engagement; Noah W. Sobe.- PART III: The Future School and Governance .- 9. The Digital Classroom. A Historical Consideration on the Redesigning of the Contexts of Learning; Ines Dussel.- 10. Governing Education Through Anticipation or How to Avoid Being a Useful Idiot When Talking About Educational Future; Keri Facer.- POSTSCRIPT : 11. Thinking about Architecture and Governance. A Postscript; Ning de Coninck-Smith.