Purple Elephant Preschool Bangkok

The Early Learning Centre understands how the workplace affects the peace and productivity of those whom it embraces. An environment can be more than a place; it can be a message, a message regarding values. The greeting spaces communicate an open welcome for parents to linger, talk together, read documentary panels of the children's work. The meeting spaces communicate the value of professional development, quiet spaces designed for reflection on the progress of a project. The classroom spaces communicate the value of small group work and the co-construction of knowledge among children and adults. The art spaces communicate The Early Learning Centre’s value for supporting The Hundred Languages that children can use to express their beliefs, theories, and feelings.

An environment embodies the values of the people who created the form, color and furnishing of the spaces. When one enters a constructed environment, one receives an immediate feeling about the people housed there. At The Early Learning Centre Family of Schools, the deep richness of teak, the gentle curve of a wall, the subtle colours, and the play of light tell the visitor that this is a place to slow down, to speak softly to a friend, and to find some greater purpose in an ordinary moment of the day. As the spaces are related to each other, so do the people relate. The spaces flow one into the other suggesting that activities within those diverse spaces should also be integrated in content and goals. Clearly, for adult and child, the environment becomes an implicit teacher, always there, always saying, I value and support your best work. And those fortunate enough to be in this space and to receive this message begin to adopt these values within themselves.