A study of specific visual stimuli that affect the learning process
Abstract
Conventional wisdom about educational facilities is that the school building simply provides the container in which learning occurs, and that the actual design of these containers has little to contribute to the real purpose of education. Many scholars of education believe that the process of learning only centers around the curriculum and instruction delivered by the education and received by the student. Recent thinking, however, now supports the need for creative design of school facilities as stools of knowledge and instruments that positively affect learning. The main idea that supports this belief is the fact that any knowledge that a child gains in an educational facility is acquired through their five senses, all five senses. One of the most apparent senses that contribute to the learning process of a child is in fact the sense of sight. And, research of pertinent literature supports the understanding that one of the main stimuli for the sense of sight is light. The problem of this study will be to show that the architectural design of the visual stimuli of light in an educational environment can affect the learning process. It is very apparent that one of the main sources of light in an educational environment is in fact a window. Windows provide the main source of natural light, which is the most suitable type of light for almost any task, especially learning. In the past, windows were seen as a distraction to students; so today many school classrooms are without windows. The purpose of this study will be to develop an instrument that would mimic all the positive stimuli that a real window provides so that it could possibly be used as a way to instruct students.
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Citation
Godkin, Blake Steven (2002). A study of specific visual stimuli that affect the learning process. Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -2002 -Fellows -Thesis -G643.