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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Design of Education Environments in 21st Century’s Schools
Hülya Özkul1, Osman Özkul2
(1. Department of Primary Education, Institute of Social Sciences, Duzce University, Turkey;
2. Faculty of Science and Literature, Sakarya University, Turkey)
Abstract: Education environments have undergone a radical change in the transition period from agricultural societies to industrial societies. In this period, education has evolved from being a skill which is acquired by a particular class in private environment to the process of getting education and training in classroom environment of wider massive social groups. With the development of science and technology, transition from industrial society to information society took place during the transition period from the 20th century to the 21st century. At the same time, a great number of the people who lived in this period began to live in large urban environments. In this period, both the content and the methods and environments of the information were inevitably exposed to change. An educational approach that focused on horizontal relations and students is developing and wide spreading instead of an approach that focused on vertical relations and teachers. In the light of the new approaches developed in this paper, examples of how education environments differentiated in the rapid urbanization process will be discussed.
Key words: education, change, 21st century, society, student, school
