TITLE:
Children and the History of Architecture —(A Reflecting Consideration towards the Quality of Children’s Familiarity with the Instructions of the History of Architecture)
AUTHORS:
Azin Ehteshami
KEYWORDS:
History of Architecture, Child, Architectural History Instruction, Architectural History Perception
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.9 No.9,
July
10,
2018
ABSTRACT: The present article is an introduction on identifying the quality of children’s confrontation with the history of architecture, in which is planned to respond to the question regarding the type of knowledge in the field of the history of architecture that children can learn. Thus, the viewpoints of the scholars in the field of child growth have primarily been dealt with regards to the mental ability of children in learning various subjects. By analyzing the viewpoints for different ages of the children, it has been tried to identify and extract the capacities that are related to the instructions of the architectural history. Thus, 11 cases of the related capabilities are introduced in this paper. The compatibility of each capacity with the perception of the history of architecture for the children is discussed for each case. Moreover, the other considered point for each section is the use of each one of the capacities for the children or the community.