COACHING THRESHOLD – ARCHITECTURAL ALTERED TEACHING METHOD PARADIGM APPLIED EXPERIMENTAL SHOWCASE IN IRAQ

Abstract

Due to the huge changes around the world, along with the changes occurred in core of thoughts, technologies and environment, in which has its reflection significantly on the societies and business in Governmental and private  institutions , and due to the different visions occurred in the work professional market, along with the accelerated occurred changes, such changes, has its impacts on the Students mentalities, attitudes, circumstances, and their environment, in addition to the impact on the engineering practice and architectural practice, and in order to occur educational change in parallel, that is synchronized with the accelerated changes in the world, it became crucial to re-orient the educational programs towards the new generations and mechanisms of educational programs that suits with the newly different attitudes, nature, and mentality. The objective considered two components for such new paradigm:  - Considering the core of thought of the second generation of architectural education

- Search for the mechanisms required for such core of thought in which the self-learning mechanism is considered as one of its pillars.

It is based on three premises:

1. To go in line, with the newly development occurred in Architectural educational programs worldwide, especially in interacting with the core of thought related to the second generation of architectural educational programs.
2. Considering the concept philosophy of “self-learning” along with its mechanisms in stimulating student potentials through effective interaction.
3. Designing the program paradigm based on the two points above, to be synchronized and tailored to the newly different student characteristics in terms of his/her circumstances, thoughts, mentality, and environment.