Email this article Color as a factor in the educational environment design: recent research review
- Authors: Vorobei A.S.1
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- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 193-210
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://medbiosci.ru/2454-0722/article/view/361721
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7256/2454-0722.2025.2.71082
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/CKIHYT
- ID: 361721
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Color in an educational environment can both direct the student's attention and create a cognitive load that is irrelevant to educational tasks. This paper reviews data published over the past ten years on the problem of finding the relationship between the color design of educational spaces and various psychological and cognitive characteristics of students. The purpose of the work is to collect and systematize knowledge, identify trends and new directions in color research in the learning spaces, review promising ideas to determine the vector of further study of the scientific problem and the application of the results obtained. Special attention is paid to the hybrid nature of the modern educational environment. In the process of work, methods of comparative analysis, systematization and generalization were used. Based on the analysis, the following conclusions were formulated: 1. The context of learning, where a person has cognitive goals, color research often remains outside the scope of research tasks. 2. The results obtained in the analyzed works do not yet make it possible to draw definitive conclusions about the influence of color in the educational environment on the cognitive abilities, success and emotions of students. 3. The vast context of the modern educational environment remains beyond the scope of research interest. The accumulated data on the color design of classrooms seem to be of little informative in the current learning environment, when the transition between digital and physical environments is carried out more often and faster. 4. Due to methodological and resource constraints, only certain color properties and a limited part of the color spectrum come into the focus of researchers' attention. 5. There is little data to draw conclusions about the age, gender and socio-cultural specifics of perception and the role of color in the educational environment.
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