Planning Challenges for Integrated and Cooperative Education Schools: An Educational Management and Space Design Perspective

DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE14.35

Authors: Fumihiko Shiwa

Abstract:

The traditional 6-3 system in Japanese compulsory education has been reviewed in recent years. Local municipalities throughout Japan are now promoting the construction of integrated and cooperative education schools for the purpose of continuity and the systemization of compulsory education. This study analyzed the planning characteristics and spatial design of newly built facility-combined integrated and cooperative education schools from an educational management and space design perspective. As such, it clarified grade division, timetable scheduling, enhancing the suitability of high-rises in terms of space planning, the importance of the approach space, characteristics and challenges in designing various rooms to gain knowledge needed to plan future integrated and cooperative education schools, and finally, it examined an ideal working space for increasing the effectiveness of integrated and cooperative education.

Keywords: integrated and cooperative education school; educational management; space design perspective; grade division; working space