Inselkita Spiekeroog. Energy Efficient Design of an Environmental Kindergarden for Early Childhood Education on the Island Spiekeroog - A Collaborative-Transdisciplinary Higher Education Teaching Project.

Abstract

This inforgraphic describes a collaborative- transdisciplinary higher education teaching project organised by Jade University of Applied Sciences and University of Applied Sciences Emden/ Leer in Lower Saxony, Germany interconnecting bachelor and master students of the following fields: a) early childhood pedagogy, b) geoinformation science, c) architecture and d) civil enginieering. The cross-disciplinary task of a kindergarden design proposal offers a comprehensive and practical example for all four participating professional disciplines addressing practise-based learning. The task requires professional knowledge input and a specific role by each of the individual discipline: Students of early childhood pedagogy provide the pedagogical concept by taking the role of a client. Combined with information on the site regarding ecology, demography, soil and climate by geoinformation science students, architectural students translate the requirements into a design proposal. The civil engineers act as consultants on climate-sensitive construction and construction site logistics regarding the location on an island. The project enables students to experience working in a transdisciplinary environment. Of particular interest are the challenges of integrating multiple perspectives based on expert knowledge in a design process task of a learning environment focussing on resource-efficient and climate-sensitive criteria. The project focusses on the following competences and learning outcomes: communication, cooperation and coordination, development of a scientifically reflecting habitus, flexibility and openness to unknown and foreign methodologies. Furthermore, learning in a protected and closed academic environment by realistic case challenges is a process that allows students to foster creative exploration, realistic simulations and feasible experiments. Due to the corona pandemic the module was conducted completely online, which surprisingly enhanced the cross-disciplinary group work. Evolving from content-based teaching to learning by knowledge consolidation and further development of individual skills enabled the lecturers to emphasize on independent, creative and responsible teaching to provoke intrinsic motivation and positive learning outcomes. This teaching module was conducted for the first time during the summer semester 2020 and will be offered frequently.

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Inselkita Spiekeroog
Energy efficient design of an environmental kindergarden for early childhood education on the island Spiekeroog
–a collaborative-interdisciplinary higher education teaching project
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Geoinformation Science Students
Jade University of Applied Sciences
Provide geodata on ecology, demography,
soil and climate of the island to identify
possible locations, GIS data model
Early Childhood Pedagogy Students
Emden/ Leer University of Applied
Sciences
Provide the pedagogical concept by
taking the role of a client
Architecture Students
Jade University of Applied Sciences
translate the requirements into a design
proposal, CAD model
Civil Engineering Students
Jade University of Applied Sciences
act as consultants on climate-sensitive
construction and construction site
logistics, BIM model
Teaching Mode (weekly)
Disciplinary support by teachers
Interdisciplinary group work on
kindergarden design
Presentations to all participants
as peer group for feedback
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Kindergarden Design Proposal
Literature & Press
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hollermann: sebastian.hollermann@jade-hs.de -Prof. Dr. Lena S. Kaiser: lena.kaiser@hs-emden-leer.de -Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Roland Pesch: roland.pesch@jade-hs.de -Prof. Anja Willmann: anja.willmann@jade-hs.de
Hollermann, S.; Kaiser, L.S.; Pesch, R. ; Willmann, A. (2020).
Projektbuch interdis ziplinäres Lehrprojekt . ISBN:
9783941929142
Studierende der JADE HS
und HS Emden/Leer
arbeiten gemeinsam.
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Interdisziplinäres Lehrprojekt
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