Creativity and Freedom: Early Childhood Education in Japan

Educational trips are an important part of EdDesign Mag's work: this is both exploring the world educational experience and reflecting on the situation in the school-building market. During the last several years, magazine's team visited Singapore, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Khazakhstan, China, Turkey, Japan. The core issue of the trip to Tokyo was preschool and primary education. We visited projects that are interesting in terms of the pedagogical approach, the learning environment and architecture. Explore Fuji, Kashimada, Kiitos Hamura and Seiwa kindergartens through our text and get to know how to join our next trips.

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Chemistry, physics, and biology workshops at the "New School" are conducted in these laboratories. Here, all the equipment for safe and visually compelling experiments is available. The communication systems are integrated through the intelligent ceiling system from the German company Hohenloher. It provides access to water, electricity, low currents, and compressed air from any point in the classroom. All work surfaces are resistant to the effects of chemical reagents and thermal damage. Safety is paramount: in case of minimal risk, the system automatically disables access to the communications. The laboratory was designed by EdDesign LLC.

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In the FabLab, students assemble electronic circuits and create polyhedral shapes. Multiple types of activities are united in one zone. Children work with a 3D printer and 3D pen, laser cutter, and cutting plotter. They learn to use all modern digital production tools and go through the process from developing an idea to creating a functional prototype.
FabLab was created as part of the EdDesign LLC project.

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A spacious creative culinary cluster at "Khoroshkola School," where both children in small groups and larger parties of up to 40 people can engage. Lessons here take the form of engaging masterclasses, resembling TV shows featuring a chef. Children learn to cook and develop a love for healthy food while also delving into history, geography, foreign languages, and cultural studies right in the kitchen.

Culinarium was created as part of the EdDesign LLC project.

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In the 2023 academic year in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, M.K. Tagirov Lyceum No. 1, the oldest school in the city, opened its doors after undergoing a large-scale reconstruction. Situated in the heart of the city within a historical building, the public school provides free education for children. Following the reconstruction, it now stands on par with the country's best private schools.

The tasks assigned to the EdDesign designer encompassed not only the restoration of the historical building but also the expansion of the school's capacity (from 736 students before reconstruction to the current 990) and its functionality. As a result, new educational buildings were added alongside the historical structure, including two autonomous structures—a facility for infrastructure and another for sports.

Classrooms within the school are designed to accommodate various teaching formats. The facility includes large classrooms for entire parallel groups, as well as rooms for 25 and 40 students, along with spaces tailored for individual work. In elementary school classrooms, there are sofas and rocking chairs in addition to desks, and corridors and recreational areas boast numerous play zones.

Functional rooms are organized into clusters. The science cluster comprises cutting-edge classrooms and laboratories for specialized subjects, including a computer science room equipped for augmented reality tools. The media lab cluster features a recording studio, video studio, and TV studio with modern professional equipment. The art cluster and workshop cluster provide spaces for drawing, 3D modeling, robotics, crafts, and cooking.

Other aspects of the project, such as the school's accessibility for citizens, incorporation of national motifs, and the unique amphitheater, are elaborated upon in a video tour of Lyceum No. 1 in Almetyevsk.

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00:00 History and reconstruction
00:17 Educational complex
00:38 Entrance group
00:52 School cafe for students and townspeople
01:00 New school building
01:19 Investor of the project
01:30 The designer of the EdDesign project
01:56 Middle and high school buildings
02:04 Chupaevsky stone
02:22 Wardrobe
02:45 School Media Library
03:00 Zoning of the media library
03:13 School class
03:17 Mobile desks
03:30 Teacher's desk
03:40 Magnetic marker board
03:50 Interactive panel
03:58 Walls and ceiling in the classroom
04:35 Headphone stand
04:44 Smart Engineering
05:01 Drinking fountains
05:14 National ornaments
05:48 Clusters
05:57 Scientific block
06:08 Laboratory
06:21 "Transparent" classes
06:32 Culinary Laboratory
07:16 Felt lampshades
07:54 School TV Studio
08:04 Recording studio
08:14 Art class
08:45 Craft class
08:56 Amphitheater
09:30 The Dining room
09:47 Prototyping Center
10:08 Elementary School Block
10:14 Elementary School Wardrobe
10:34 Elementary School classroom
11:14 Walls of varying degrees of transparency
11:22 Music class
11:43 Recreational activity
12:00 A place for privacy
12:27 School toilets
12:44 Small classes
12:50 Mobile desks
13:06 An unusual classroom
13:33 Yaratam Furniture
13:37 Gym for teachers
13:58 Teacher's Room
14:30 School yard
14:48 School greenhouse
14:49 Sports complex
15:14 Swimming pool
15:27 Ornament in the corridors
15:40 Rhythm and dance class
16:03 Gym with climbing wall
16:47 Music School
17:02 Carpentry and locksmith workshops
17:10 The openness of the school for the townspeople

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ED Design LLC designs and furnishes innovative educational spaces. A prototyping center, laboratories, art workshops, culinary lab, a greenhouse, an observatory and a planetarium - all this is an opportunity for a child to know himself, try his hand, get a real profession, choose his future path. This is the intellectual center of the school, requiring deep immersion in modern science and technology. We have already worked with dozens of schools around the world, creating such engineering-saturated centers. And we will be happy to organize such spaces in your school.

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