Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning - Couverture souple

Nair, Prakash

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1612507042 ISBN 13 : 9781612507040

Editeur : Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2014

Synopsis

The United States has about $2 trillion tied up in aging school facilities. School districts throughout the country spend about $12 billion every year keeping this infrastructure going. Yet almost all of the new money we pour into school facilities reinforces an existing--and obsolete--model of schooling.

In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nair--one of the world's leading school designers--explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey and advocates for the "alignment" of the design of places in which we teach and learn with twenty-first-century learning goals.

Blueprint for Tomorrow provides simple, affordable, and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support student-centered learning. In particular, the author focuses on ways to use current spending to modify existing spaces, and explains which kinds of adaptations offer the biggest return in terms of student learning. The book is organized by area--from classrooms to cafeterias--and is richly illustrated throughout, including "before and after" features, "smart idea" sidebars, and "do now" suggestions for practical first steps. It outlines key principles for designing spaces that support today's learning needs and includes tools to help educators evaluate the educational effectiveness of their own spaces.

Blueprint for Tomorrow will open educators' eyes to the ways that architecture and learning are entwined and will challenge them to rethink the ways they teach and work together.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Prakash Nair is the founding president of Fielding Nair International, an award-winning school planning and design firm with consultations in forty-three countries. Prior to establishing Fielding Nair International, Nair worked as the director of operations for the world's largest school construction program in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612507042
• ISBN 13: 9781612507040
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible