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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