ABSTRACT
In 1967 The O bserver newspaper ran a competition entitled ‘The School I’d Like’. Just over 30 years later, in 2001, The G uardian newspaper repeated that competition. In this chapter, Catherine Burke, a lecturer at University of Leeds, and Ian Grosvenor, the director of Learning and Teaching, University of Birmingham, report on one aspect of the second competition. They describe children’s responses related to the design and the quality of school buildings and they urge educators, designers and architects to take note of what children have to say in order that stimulating ‘spaces for learning’ might be better constructed.
