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Review We are architects! We are educators! Proclaimed with conviction and experience, Prakash Nair and Roni Zimmer Doctori declare they are bringing their perspectives both as designers and specialists to the book in your hands, Learning by Design. With enthusiasm, pragmatism, and imagination, Nair and Doctori take the reader on a rewarding dive into exploring possibilities for the contemporary learner. They encourage us to envision what modern learning can and should look like in a reimagined school environment. Given the authors exceptional expertise as architects, it is refreshing to see their design thinking and experience reflected in the layout of the book. Providing examples from a range of schools, Nair and Doctori take us on a kind of tour through the lens of a set of questions regarding what is happening in real settings. What is a flexible learning environment? How does it affect learning? This discrete focus on fundamental decisions regarding how we group learners, structure their time, while connecting them with flexible spaces brought all of the previous chapters together. We see that it is possible to modernize schools and to respect our learners. The case studies they provide give hope and inspiration to readers. In an original and engaging book design move, Nair and Doctori invited an internationally respected colleague and one of our seminal thinkers in education, Dr. Richard F. Elmore to provide a powerful coda to the book. His chapter, The Challenges of Learning and Design, takes into operationalizing the potential of learning organizations . Elmore organizes his discussion around five key propositions, a quadrant framework for analyzing the modalities and context for learning, and then provides us with a dynamic set of design principles to underscore the planning process Nair and Doctori proposed earlier in the book. Written with a deft touch, Elmore shines light on how our calcified views of education are loosened when we reverse the relationship between schooling and learning . His contribution has gravitas, adding depth to the discussion even as it is eye-opening and engaging. We have an exuberant and practical guide in our hands with Learning by Design which gives educators, communities, and learners an inspired roadmap to transformation. Yes, we are all architects! We are all educators! --Heidi Hayes Jacobs Read more About the Author Prakash Nair is a futurist, a visionary architect and the Founding President & CEO of Fielding Nair International, one of the world s leading change agents in school design with consultations in 47 countries on six continents. He is the recipient of many international awards including the A4LE MacConnell Award, the highest honor worldwide for school design. Roni Zimmer Doctori has over 17 years of professional architectural and project management experience. She has served as an Architect and Design Team Leader at AlefBet Planners since 2007 and also as a Principal Architect with Fielding Nair International. Roni travels around the globe to implement highly innovative, student-centered curriculums in new and renovated schools. Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990. He has held positions in the federal government as a legislative liaison with the U.S. Congress on education policy issues. He is currently director of the Doctor in Educational Leadership (Ed.L.D.) program at HGSE. Dr. Elmore is exploring how schools of different types and in different policy contexts develop a sense of accountability and a capacity to deliver high-quality instruction. He has also researched educational choice, school restructuring, and how changes in teaching and learning affect school organization. Read more
Review We are architects! We are educators! Proclaimed with conviction and experience, Prakash Nair and Roni Zimmer Doctori declare they are bringing their perspectives both as designers and specialists to the book in your hands, Learning by Design. With enthusiasm, pragmatism, and imagination, Nair and Doctori take the reader on a rewarding dive into exploring possibilities for the contemporary learner. They encourage us to envision what modern learning can and should look like in a reimagined school environment. Given the authors exceptional expertise as architects, it is refreshing to see their design thinking and experience reflected in the layout of the book. Providing examples from a range of schools, Nair and Doctori take us on a kind of tour through the lens of a set of questions regarding what is happening in real settings. What is a flexible learning environment? How does it affect learning? This discrete focus on fundamental decisions regarding how we group learners, structure their time, while connecting them with flexible spaces brought all of the previous chapters together. We see that it is possible to modernize schools and to respect our learners. The case studies they provide give hope and inspiration to readers. In an original and engaging book design move, Nair and Doctori invited an internationally respected colleague and one of our seminal thinkers in education, Dr. Richard F. Elmore to provide a powerful coda to the book. His chapter, The Challenges of Learning and Design, takes into operationalizing the potential of learning organizations . Elmore organizes his discussion around five key propositions, a quadrant framework for analyzing the modalities and context for learning, and then provides us with a dynamic set of design principles to underscore the planning process Nair and Doctori proposed earlier in the book. Written with a deft touch, Elmore shines light on how our calcified views of education are loosened when we reverse the relationship between schooling and learning . His contribution has gravitas, adding depth to the discussion even as it is eye-opening and engaging. We have an exuberant and practical guide in our hands with Learning by Design which gives educators, communities, and learners an inspired roadmap to transformation. Yes, we are all architects! We are all educators! --Heidi Hayes Jacobs Read more About the Author Prakash Nair is a futurist, a visionary architect and the Founding President & CEO of Fielding Nair International, one of the world s leading change agents in school design with consultations in 47 countries on six continents. He is the recipient of many international awards including the A4LE MacConnell Award, the highest honor worldwide for school design. Roni Zimmer Doctori has over 17 years of professional architectural and project management experience. She has served as an Architect and Design Team Leader at AlefBet Planners since 2007 and also as a Principal Architect with Fielding Nair International. Roni travels around the globe to implement highly innovative, student-centered curriculums in new and renovated schools. Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990. He has held positions in the federal government as a legislative liaison with the U.S. Congress on education policy issues. He is currently director of the Doctor in Educational Leadership (Ed.L.D.) program at HGSE. Dr. Elmore is exploring how schools of different types and in different policy contexts develop a sense of accountability and a capacity to deliver high-quality instruction. He has also researched educational choice, school restructuring, and how changes in teaching and learning affect school organization. Read more
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