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Revisiting Bronfenbrenner Bioecological
Model through Classroom Setting at the
Preschool Located within the Double
Storey Residential Building
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From a Place called Home… 2
Research Problem: Converting A Home to A School
Home working parents
home environment
Siblings and extended families
Quality education
Child care provider
Child
School Preschool
environment
Classroom setting
Teachers and staffs
Children
Interaction
Activities
Gap: What setting is best for children when there is no much space?
How will it affect the child? Will the child like it?
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Research Objectives
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Research Questions
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Revisiting Bronfenbrenner Bioecological Model
…through rearranging classroom settings by applying Bronfenbrenner Formula of Development in the context of preschool environment
Time Over a period of time
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Theoretical Framework 7
Methodology: Sequential Triangulation
Total classroom : 3 Number of children (N) : 42
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Activities Method Parameter Objective
Autophotography
Photography Indoor Places
RO1
Voice Recorder People
Interview Decoration
Drawing
Discussion with
children and teacher Children
preference
RO2 and RO3
Individual children’s
drawing
Design Board
Discussion with
children and teacher Children preference
Individual construction
of design board
Group Discussion
Discussion with
children and teacher
Construction of
classroom setting using Floor
Planner
Teacher
concerns and
preferences
Children
concerns and
preferences
Void spaces
Evaluation Observation Children
ingress and egress 9
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Autophotography (PE) : To answer RO1
Bronfenbrenner Bioecological Model in a Preschool Context
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Bronfenbrenner Bioecological Model: Interaction within the meso-system
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Children’s Participation (f): To Answer RO2 & RO3
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Vygotsky Theory of Scaffolding 13
Data Analysis: Content Categorization
Internal Categories External Categories
Method Priorities Attributes Category Domain
Auto-
photography
Photographs of indoor
places, people and
decorations
Interviews
Friends
Micro- and
meso-system
structure
Elements of
Bronfenbrenner
bioecological
model
Teacher
Own classroom
Other places
Other staffs Exosystem
structure
Drawing Joined table arrangement Table
arrangement Spatial
ordering
Classroom setting
Detached table arrangement
Design board Joined table arrangement Table
arrangement Detached table arrangement
Group
discussion
Teacher concerns and
preferences
Table
arrangement
and seating
position
Positioning
Children concerns and
preferences
Occupied spaces
Void spaces
Observation Towards seating position Children
ingress and
egress
Classroom
circulation From seating position
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Research
Objectives
Findings
Preschool Setting
RO1
Elements of interaction in the microsystem to
be applied into the Bronfenbrenner
bioecological model in a preschool context
located at the double storey residential
building:
The connection of the elements in the
mesosystem
Classroom Setting
RO2
Teachers concerns and preferences:
Children Safety
Class Circulation
Children’s concerns and preferences:
Connected table setting
Seating selection
Classroom setting
RO3 Occupied spaces (table area-private spaces)
Void spaces (common area – carpet area)
Findings Summary
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Classroom Setting 16
Time (t-p)
Adele’s Behaviour Over a Period of Time (t-p)
• Insecure • Head down • No eye contact
6 months 1 1/2 years 3 months 1st day of school
• Looked at teachers • Kept quiet • No expressions
• Identify Naily’s lunchbox • Talking to Naily • Walking with Naily and Leia
• Smiling • Say goodbye to Naily and Leia • Express excitement to return to school
Bridging between architecture and
education
Adele’s turning point
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Maslow Hierarchy of Needs (D): To meet Research Aim
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A Place called School 19
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Paper Publications
Nurul Nadiah Sahimi (2010). Preschool preferences on the school environment. Asian Journal of Environment-Behavior Studies, 1(3).
Nurul Nadiah Sahimi & Ismail Said (2012). Young children selections of the physical elements in the preschool environmnet. Journal of Asian Behavioral Studies, 1(2).
Nurul Nadiah Sahimi, Ismail Said & Putri Zabariah Megat A. Rahman (2014). Revealing young children and teachers behavior through active participation in deciding classroom layout. Social and Behavioral Sciences, 168, pp.22-29.
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