RT Generic
A1 Meade, Anne
A1 Ross, Fiona
T1 Education Facilities for Young Children
JF PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
YR 2006
FD Nov 01
K1 United Kingdom
K2 educational buildings
K3 New Zealand
AB Educational buildings and grounds can provide a supportive and stimulating environment for the
learning process as well as contribute to greater community needs. These issues were addressed at
an international conference entitled "Making Space: Architecture and Design for Young Children".
Described here are the importance of outdoor space to learning in New Zealand, presented at the
event, and a campus for pupils in Scotland (United Kingdom) visited by conference participants.
Access to outdoor space is seen as essential to New Zealand children’s development. An early
childhood education consultant explains how the early childhood curriculum is linked to both indoor
and outdoor spaces in line with socio-cultural learning theory.
A new campus in Scotland built to regroup several educational institutions for young children has been
successful in uniting different faiths and integrating pupils with special needs. 
Further information about the conference is available in PEB Exchange no. 57, February 2006.
PB Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
DO 10.1787/407064601310
UL http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/;jsessionid=1cbxrgwef2vxo.x-oecd-live-02content/workingpaper/407064601310