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Schools for the Future
Price: $37.62
Author: Rotraut Walden
Manufacturer: Hogrefe Publishing
Architecture and its relationship to its users have a significant influence on life and activities within the built environment. This poses a particular challenge with regard to public buildings such as schools, which have to accommodate the needs of many different people in order to provide them with the best possible environment to support their performance.

In this book, following a brief overview of the historical development of school buildings in different countries, contributions from international experts discuss how school buildings can work together with users' own creative responses and result in educational environments that are "alive." The give-and-take relationship between architecture and its users (students, teachers, parents, and the community at large) is emphasized from the point of view of architectural psychology and emerging considerations such as information technology. The "schools for the future" vision is to create spaces that people are pleased to return to, time and again, and that allow options for future modification in line with changing user requirements.

Criteria for the assessment of schools are derived from a dual approach. The first is the call for a common language to be used by designers and educators, exemplified by a number of patterns that have been found to be salient in school design. Their common underlying premise is that learning environments should be learner-centered, appropriate to age and developmental stage, safe, comfortable, accessible, flexible, and equitable, in addition to being cost effective.

The second approach presents instruments for the systematic assessment of school buildings according to facet theory, a tool that helps to structure the large number of possible influences and subjective indicators such as learning performance, expressions of well-being, and social behavior. Based on descriptions of 23 innovative schools in eleven countries on five continents, a system is developed that enables judgment of school quality. It applies the criteria of functional, esthetic, social-physical, ecological, organizational, and economical aspects to various parts of the overall school complex: Exterior, school building proper, entrance, classrooms, specialty rooms, interior and corridors, court-yards/open spaces and special areas.

This book provides an essential resource for educators, architects, and policy makers involved in the planning and running of educational facilities.

Schools for the Future: Designing School Grounds
Price: $50.00
Author: Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
Manufacturer: Stationery Office
This guide, "Schools for the Future: Designing School Grounds", encourages schools to consider how best to use their grounds for the educational, recreational and social needs of their pupils. It gives practical case studies of where schools have transformed their environment and brought new learning and excitement for their children, staff and the wider community. The guide is designed for everyone involved in developing school grounds: teachers, headteachers and governing bodies, local authorities, architects, dioceses, and sponsors. It is particularly relevant to people who make decisions about capital and revenue spending, want to increase the educational opportunities offered by schools, or are involved in designing school sites. The guide is divided into four sections that cover: guidance on the process of creating or improving school grounds; how school grounds can benefit staff, pupils and the wider community, and how to design to maximise that benefit; where to go for practical advice and how to access the available sources of funding; and, glossary and text references and further information sources.

Schools for the Future: Design of Sustainable Schools - Case Studies
Price: $30.13
Author: Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
Manufacturer: Stationery Office Books
This guide, "Schools for the Future: Design of Sustainable Schools - Case Studies", is designed to be accessible to the whole school community. It is particularly aimed at expert professionals such as designers and local authority clients. It addresses refurbishment of existing schools as many sustainability techniques used in the design of new schools can be applied to existing schools and vice versa. This volume of case studies concentrates primarily on schools which have tackled environmental aspects of sustainability. The schools include various features which allow schools to be constructed and operated in ways that do not damage the environment. The publication is structured in three parts: emerging themes highlights those messages that were consistently identified at a number of the schools investigated; detailed case studies of twelve schools; and a brief description of the main tools that support sustainable design, many of which have been applied to the case study schools.

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