خلاصة:
Environmental psychology is one of the subjects that has currently attracted the attention of many
people involved in education. Paying attention in school, work, and generally life environments in addition to other
elements, can play a significant role in attracting individuals and improving their lifestyle, education and work. Hence,
tending to spatial elements in educational environments, especially in primary school, can provide a suitable setting
for attracting students, increasing their level of interest in learning, creating mental and physical peace, and correct
education of members of the society. This study was performed to separate legible and illegible spaces in the minds of
primary school students. The drawings of the educational environment by the students showed legible concepts and
images with regards to the intended factors.
The results show that the position of spatial elements in mental imaging of boy and girl students with regards to
individual, social, and other aspects are different. Some, such as the activity playground are more important for boys,
and green space and a colorful setting is important for girls and attracting them to school. In other factors, such as
social factors, the two groups are similar. Hence, the use of adequate lines, vibrant and varying colors, decorating
the environment, and granting importance to the basic needs of both groups (considering their age and sex) seems
necessary.
ملخص الجهاز:
Hence, tending to spatial elements in educational environments, especially in primary school, can provide a suitable setting for attracting students, increasing their level of interest in learning, creating mental and physical peace, and correct education of members of the society.
The results show that the position of spatial elements in mental imaging of boy and girl students with regards to individual, social, and other aspects are different.
Hence, school is not just limited to the classroom, but a series of skeletal homogeneous elements and the surrounding environment form the basis for a school which is committed to the continuous improvement of the educational process, while paying attention to all effective elements, including mental imaging of students.
MATERIALS AND METHODS Importance and necessity of the study Considering the objectives of education in the past two decades, reverence and protection of human values regarding education, respect, and congeniality as factors affecting students’ education, especially children’s; and the correction of some factors in the act of learning and developing talents and improving students’ mental image of the school seems necessary.
Some of these factors are: teaching method, method of conducting the classroom, type of teachers’ and students’ clothing, school architecture – which includes classroom design, the design of the teachers’ and the principal’s room, schoolyard, playing area, buildings, lighting, sound, and… Considering the increasing growth of environmental psychology in the present age, and its effect on individual souls and minds, and creating motives for performing or not performing an activity, the importance of students’ mental imagery, in the process of learning and developing talents, cannot be disregarded.