A influência da arquitetura escolar na aprendizagem: estudo de caso na UEB Monsenhor Frederico Chaves, São Luís - Maranhão

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the influence of physical space on learning through a case study performed at the municipal school UEB Monsenhor Frederico Chaves, in São Luís-MA. The study will focus on elementary school students. In the bibliographical research was made a carefully search for the historical understanding of the school architecture, the process of construction and implementation of the curricular proposal of municipal public schools in São Luís and in Brazil nowadays. And the studies carried out on the influence of spaces in teaching-learning, addressing the user-environment relationship, environmental psychology, the factors of suitability for school space quality and the theories on child development by the views of Piaget and Vygotsky. The field study sought to analyze the physical conditions and the pedagogical methods experienced in school practice. The

methodology applied was fundamental for the understanding since the Experiential Post- Occupational Assessment counts on the contribution of users in their instruments application

process, such as: interviews, walkthrough analysis, questionnaires and wish poems. Finally, it was found a deficient public school architecture, little explored, traditional and that do not attend the users‟ needs. To minimize these effects, guidelines and recommendations were developed that sought to adapt to these needs and provide better conditions for the school space and teaching didactics to stimulate the student's full development