O estudo do ambiente construído na arquitetura escolar: sua influência para o desenvolvimento do ensino aprendizado na educação infantil

Abstract

The importance of the built environment in school architecture. With the objective of evaluating a local public school, the UEB (portuguese acronym to Unit of Basic Education) Recanto dos Pássaros in the city of São Luis - MA, focused on Children's Education, this study seeks to understand the relationship between the built environment and the pedagogical practices adopted by the institution, trying to see how the environment can influence, positively or negatively, the growth and development of children from 3 (three) to 6 (six) years old. The adopted methodology had the support of some important tools, such as: application of questionnaires and visual mappings for teachers and other employees, the poem of desires, applied to children, and non-structured interviews with the school's educational coordinator, and photographic records of the whole building and measurements of temperature in loco. With the obtained results it was able to develop a conclusive analysis emphasizing the importance of the physical structure and physical configuration of the school environment for the integral children’s development.