Patterns for Designing Children's Centers: A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories

By Fred Linn Osmon

As its Foreword states, "This book is timely. At this writing, the private sector and federal, state and city governments are planning to spend a great deal of money to provide organized education for the very young. So, Patterns for Designing Children's Centersshould be useful to people who plan, or hope to plan, a children's center. The book is not, however, a 'do it yourself manual' that provides blueprints for centers. It goes deeper than that by offering a rationale for all the facets of a children's center, and thus gives readers a chance to design their own centers, or find out what they really need in one. "As long as the American society is plural, its ways of caring for the very young will be plural. Accordingly, this book provides no standard and universal answers; but it does make accessible in one place the current knowledge about how the young learn and therefore how adults may constructively respond. "The author, Fred Osmon, practices architecture in California. Since he once worked at EFL, he can speak authoritatively for both disciplines-education and architecture. And it is the confluence of the two which can produce good places for children to be."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026265007X
• ISBN13: 9780262650076
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.4" x 1.0" x 11.0"