title: Incorporating educative environments into the holistic care of paediatric patients.
abstract: Hospital settings can, and should, create educative spaces and learning opportunities as part of their holistic care for young patients. The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence for creating high quality, child-centred learning environments within paediatric settings. We explore the impact of physical spaces on learning; the literature on developmental stages of learning for children and young people as it relates to learning environments; and the literature on learning in out-of-school settings, particularly as this applies to children who are separated from their daily communities. As all paediatric settings can create opportunities for the ongoing educational development of their patients, this paper presents a way forward for this approach to holistic care.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. sueew@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Susan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Wilks
authors.forename: Julie B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Tsharni R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Zazryn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006694:Holistic Health; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010361:Patients