Kevin J. Brehony, “A new education for a new era: the contribution of the conferences of the New Education Fellowship to the disciplinary field of education 1921–1938,” Paedagogica Historica 40, issue 5-6 (2004): 1.
See New Ideals in Education (NIIE) conferences 1914–1937, New Education Fellowship (NEF) conferences 1921–1938, and World Education Fellowship (WEF) founded 1921.
“World Education Fellowship: An introduction,” UCL, Institute of Education LibGuides, ➝.
Catherine Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), 211.
Geraint Franklin, “’Built-in variety’: David and Mary Medd and the Child-Centred Primary School, 1944–80,” Architectural History 55 (2012): 321–367
Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture, 80
Nikolaus Pevsner described the early Hertfordshire schools as “elegant and carefully considered into the smallest detail.” Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire (London: Penguin Books, 1953) as cited in Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture, 82
Henry Morris Cambridgeshire community village colleges were described by Andrew Saint as “the most prophetic expression of what a ‘community school’ might mean.” Andrew Saint, Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England (London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 1987), 41. Architecturally, the best known example is Impington Village College (1938–1940), designed by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry. What matters here is “the sense of congruity between form and social intention: the relaxed groupings of classrooms, community space and shared hall.”
Saint, Towards A Social Architecture, 80.
Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture, 122
Building Bulletin no. 18 (London: HMSO, 1961), 45, as cited in Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture, 187.
Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture, 214.
Interview with David Medd, in Principles of Primary School Design: From the Past to the Future, eds. C. Burke, P. Cunningham, A. Clark, D. Cullinan, R. Sayers, and R. Walker (London: Fielden, Clegg and Bradley, 2010).
Burke, A Life in Education and Architecture, 121.
BBC, The Expanding Classroom, dir. Eileen Moloney, April 20, 1969.
Peter Wilby, “Margaret Thatcher’s education legacy is still with us – driven on by Gove,” The Guardian, April 15, 2013, ➝.
Michael Fielding and Peter Moss, “Radical Democratic Education,” Submission to American Sociological Association, 107th ASA Annual Meeting (April 4, 2012), 2, ➝.
A Labour government’s ambitious school building program was cancelled by Michael Gove on his appointment as Minister of Education.
Geoffrey Sherington, “The death of progressive education: How teachers lost control of the classroom, by Roy Lowe” Journal of Educational Administration and History 42, no. 1 (2010): 100–101.
Fielding and Moss, “Radical Democratic Education,” 1, ➝.
Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).
Fielding and Moss, “Radical Democratic Education,” 2, ➝.
The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child—the first comprehensive human rights treaty for children—states that children have the right to express their views “in all matters affecting the child” and that the views of the children should be given “due weight.” This involves the right to be consulted on their environment. See ➝.
Colin Ward, The Child in the City (London: London Architectural Press, 1977), 182.
David and Mary Medd, Building Bulletin no. 1 (1949).
This contribution derives from a presentation given at Nottingham Contemporary on November 8, 2019. A video recording of the presentation is available here.
Architectures of Education is a collaboration between Nottingham Contemporary, Kingston University, and e-flux Architecture, and a cross-publication with The Contemporary Journal.