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Outdoor Learning: Leave the Classroom Behind
Leave the Classroom Behind
Prakash Nair,
Roni Zimmer Doctori and Gary Stager
Failed Open Plan Offices What Can Schools Learn?
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Prakash Nair,
Louis Sirota, AIA
May, 2020
Transforming School Design In A Post-coronavirus World
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Prakash Nair, AIA
Roni Zimmer Doctori
March, 2020
Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning
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Nair, Prakash (2014)
Harvard Education Press
Redesigning Schools into Student-Directed Learning Communities
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Nair, Prakash
Educadores Journal, December 2018
Reimagining and Renovating As Acts of Choice
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Nair, Prakash
School Administrators Magazine, October 2017
The Attention Myth: Why Paying Attention in Class is Overrated
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Nair, Prakash
Edutopia, Posted 05/08/2015
The Classroom is Obsolete — It’s Time for Something New
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Nair, Prakash (2011)
Education Week
From Cells and Bells to Learning Communities
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Nair, Prakash 2014, Harvard Education Letter
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Life Between Classrooms: Applying Public Space Theory to Learning Environments
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Nair, Prakash and Gehling, Annalise (2010)
‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF), British Council for School Environments, Pages 26-33.
The authors contributed to a collection of provocation papers entitled “Reshaping Our Learning Landscape” for the British Council for School Environments. Nair and Gehling discuss Jan Gehl’s theory of public space and how it might apply to learning environments today, using the examples of school and university campuses, and exploring the emerging role of informal learning in the 21st Century.
Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them
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Nair, Prakash (2009)
Education Week, Vol. 28, Issue 28, (8 April) Pages 24-25.
Accommodating an Education Revolution: How Victorian schools are re-organising for the 21st Century
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Nair, P & Gehling, A (2008)
Professional Voice Australian Education Union (Victoria), Vol. 5 Issue 3.
Democratic Architecture: The Community Centre Model
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Nair, P & Gehling, A (2008)
Voices in Urban Education Anneberg Institute at Brown University, Spring.
Introduction to ReThink!
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Nair, P & Gehling, A (2007)
edited by La Marca, S. School Library Association of Victoria.
A Comfortable Truth
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Edutopia, April/May 2007. 8 Truths About Comfort in Schools.
Getting Beyond the School as Temple
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Edutopia, 2006
Master Classroom
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Thinking like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, or Jamie Oliver can help you look at school design in a whole new light. Co-authored with Randall Fielding.
Edutopia, 2006
The Language of School Design
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Co-authored with Randall Fielding
DesignShare, 2005
Small Is BIG
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The way space is organized can give school a powerful sense of community. Co-authored with Randall Fielding.
Edutopia, 2005
Planning Schools As Symbols of Change
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The Council of Educational Facility Planners International
30 Strategies for Education Innovation
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DesignShare
Making Peace with Campfires – Confessions of a Reformed Radical
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Education Week
The Changing Shape of Learning
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“Connection” – New England Board of Higher Education (also, see article below)
A Proven Methodology for Assessing School Buildings
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with Nadine Chin-Santos
School Planning and Management