Factors affecting students’ presence (case study: private kindergarten, gonbad-e-qabus, iran)
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Date
2012-04
Authors
Haghighat, Tina
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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This research investigates the underlying factors affecting students‟ presence based on learning environment facilities. The places that are relevant with children learning should include appropriate environment to improve their physical, mental and social growth. This is possible by utilizing suitable architectural elements and by designing a place that children use to learn. Architectural forms originate from special and specific elements. Kindergarten is the first educational and social place that children experience. It is also one of the important learning spaces in early childhood that has effects on children‟s education. In this environment children go through basic learning experience. It makes them more creative and influences their behaviours. Thus; this physical learning environment should be more inspirational, challenging, thought provoking and uplifting. Therefore the aim of this study is to explore the impact of kindergarten architectural design on Iranian student‟s presence. This study has been done on quantitative methods. Data were collected from children by using the modified version of Multi Intelligence Theory (MI) and also the questionnaires and the interview partly guided questions for the quantitative data. Two types of survey are conducted in this study. First, a modified version of Multiple Intelligence Theory (MI) was used to design the Iranian children questionnaire. Secondly, the teachers and principal answered the questionnaire to write their perception towards a suitable learning environment. The building environment created in kindergartens should be planned and designed in such a way that it improves and helps children‟s growth. Thus, this study is significant because it involved the evaluation of very young students and their learning space. The most important consideration in choosing this city is because of its historical background and architectural design make it unique compared to other small cities in Iran. In addition, the religious differences cause some cultural dissimilarity between this city and other parts of country. From the results, it can be concluded that the teachers emphasized more on components, which were directly related to the learning behaviour like comfortable benches, suitable lighting system, facilitated classrooms and advanced learning materials. The findings of the children‟s opinions about their kindergarten indicated that the multiple intelligences play a key role in students‟ presence.
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Underlying factors affecting students‟ presence , based on learning environment facilities