SOURCE:

Faculty: Environmental Sciences
Department: Architecture

CONTRIBUTORS:

Idoko, O. F.
Ikekpeazu, F. O.

ABSTRACT:

In recent years the concept of entertainment and playful experience has been discussed in education field as it’s being discussed in other fields. It has been pointed out that subjects containing entertainment attract learners’ attention more, making their experience more permanent and recollective. One of the fields that entertainment is densely active is education. Inevitable entertainment learning, with the alteration in education field, is based on an obsessive claim and in accordance with that, a concept emerges. Edutainment is a word that states that a mix of entertainment and education, or marriage of education and entertainment, attracts learners’ attention and makes them focus on events and teaching materials during learning. If the aim is to teach new things to the next generation and to provide permanence of the teaching, teaching methods should be ordered in the direction of their needs and wishes. Hence, the purpose of this study is to develop the design of a social, entertaining and educational facility that will provide a soothing learning experience to children through play and exhibits.

Keywords: architecture, children, education, edutainment, entertainment.