Designing woodleigh school: Educator and architects in context

P Goad

Journal article

Designing woodleigh school: Educator and architects in context

P Goad

History of Education Review | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1108/HER-03-2014-0014

Abstract

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional context of the educator and architects who designed and conceived Woodleigh School in Baxter, Victoria, Australia (1974-1979) and to identify common design threads in a series of schools designed by Daryl Jackson and Evan Walker in the 1970s.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Philip Goad Author

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Designing Australian Schools: a spatial history of innovation, pedagogy and social change

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects

Funding Acknowledgements

The research for this paper was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (DP110100505). The assistance of Sianan Healy, Daryl Jackson, Cameron Logan, Bruce McCallum, Julie McLeod, Evan and Judith Walker, and library staff at Woodleigh School in the research for this paper is gratefully acknowledged.