INAHE   25987
INSTITUTO DE AMBIENTE, HABITAT Y ENERGIA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Daylight in classrooms. The dynamics of daylight in clear skies and its impact on the attention performance of students
Autor/es:
ISON, MIRTA SUSANA; MONTEOLIVA, JUAN MANUEL; PATTINI, ANDREA; SANTILLÁN, JAVIER
Lugar:
Mendoza
Reunión:
Workshop; Regional Workshop of the ISSBD - Investing in Sustainable Childhoods: Implications for Preventive and Intervention Research; 2019
Institución organizadora:
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) y Universidad del Aconcagua
Resumen:
Lighting in learning spaces is one of the most influential physical characteristics in classrooms. Studies within North America and Western Europe suggest that daylight in schools improves children?s attention, behavior, emotionality and sociability. However, little is known yet about these implications in the global south where the use of uncontrolled daylight, poor lighting and lack of improvements in light installations are permanent problems in educational vulnerable contexts. Promoting the implementation of the 7th Sustainable Development Goal about the energy use, the current research line aims to study the relation between the physical environments experienced by children and their cognitive development. It is an interdisciplinary work that I develop into the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) to contribute to the comprehensive knowledge of lighting design in daytime learning spaces, considering: (i) daylight as the main source of lighting, (ii) its impact on the energy savings of complementary artificial lighting systems, and (iii) the effects produced in the performance of cognitive control in children. Different groups of research collaborate in this subject: Sustainable Daylight (INAHE CONICET), Childhood Development (INCIHUSA CONICET) and Psychobiology (ILAV CONICET). The results are expected to be useful in future guidelines and intervention programs to promote efficient lighting condition designs in learning spaces as a way to improve the cognitive performance of children.