Active agents

dc.contributor.advisorLast, Nanaen_US
dc.creatorSmith, Karien_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T08:18:09Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T08:18:09Zen_US
dc.date.issued2005en_US
dc.description.abstractDiscussions of architectural education invite consideration of assumptions concerning the purpose and definition of an architectural education. Such pursuits raise questions that each of us should confront regarding our assumptions about what kinds of knowledge, values and relationships are deemed legitimate educational concerns.1 This thesis gives shape to the architectural student campaigns of the 1930's and the 1960's, their efforts to make sense of their experiences as well as their search for meaning in architectural education. In many of these instances, students began by drawing strength from a number of leftist protests which swept university campuses, but in the course of the ensuing controversy students ultimately concluded by raising questions about the nature of architectural education and developing a radically new consciousness concerning the purpose of education. Students emerged from these campaigns with fresh thinking about the objectives and methods of an architectural education. Such investigations invite consideration for contemporary student engagement in architectural education to undergo a similar sense of self examination and are encouraging of the fundamental changes such an examination often demands.2 1Henry A. Giroux, Theory and Resistance in Education, Westport: Bergin, 2001, p 193. 2William Deresiewicz, Garrett S. Finney, Sam Kirby, Clay Miller, ed., "Into the Fire," Perspecta (29), 1998. p. xiv.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2005 SMITHen_US
dc.identifier.citationSmith, Kari. "Active agents." (2005) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17828">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17828</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2710en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17828en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectHistory of educationen_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.titleActive agentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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