Smart Green Schools Sustainability for learning environments Hes, D. (2009) Every brief and every client anticipates that building designs will be informed by sound environmental decision making. Quantitative research, particularly from the USA, has confirmed our commonsense notion that learning improves with good lighting, ventilation and water proofing as well as thermal comfort and acoustic control. In this paper, Dominique ...
Smart Green Schools 'Once they have been there and have sat in it, they get it' Hes, D. (2009) Many recent school designs incorporate sustainability features. This paper reflects on several school building projects where the potential was present for these features to be brought into the teaching practice. Using a building as a 3-D textbook means it can be incorporated into the curriculum and aid teaching about heating ...
Smart Green Schools Developing the University Campus as a Place of Learning Jamieson, P. (2009) In this paper, the view shifts to the university setting. Beginning with word snapshots of three campus settings, Peter Jamieson observes the lost opportunities to develop campus environments that are informed by both the rich discourses in the phenomenology of ‘place’ and unfolding research into what constitutes effective teaching and ...
Smart Green Schools Civic Connections London, G | Calzini, J. (2009) In this interview we hear about the role of the Office of the Government Architect. The interview captures some of the dilemmas and possibilities inherent in the recent methods adopted in Australia for the design and development of school buildings. The use of Public Private Partnerships, PPPs, to procure schools ...
Smart Green Schools Disciplinary dilemmas: learning spaces as a discussion between designers and educators Newton, C. (2009) As an architect and academic, I have been attempting to engage in conversations outside my discipline around the theme of education with a particular focus on how space can support learning. Currently undertaking a Doctorate of Education as the only non-cognate student, I am struck by the different languages that ...
Smart Green Schools Integrated Educational Services: A Key Element in the Creation of Successful Communities Salagaras, S. (2009) In this paper Stan Salagaras elaborates on the partnership which he helped broker for the sharing of an innovative learning facility built at the heart of the new Mawson Lakes housing and community development. Called the Mawson Centre, the facility was developed on land provided by Delfin Lend Lease with ...
Smart Green Schools Learning Environments: Formal and Informal Stewart, P. (2009) Educators, designers, education departments and governments support innovation in school design in a variety of interconnected ways. Peter Stewart describes a key moment for Victorian schools when the state government committed to renew or rebuild every state school over a ten year period. This meant the Victorian education department was ...
Smart Green Schools Educational Transformation Sutton, L. (2009) Lynne Sutton provides a recent history of some initiatives developed within Victoria to fund and support transformation in learning environments particularly through the Leading Schools Fund (LSF). Around half of Victoria’s secondary schools received funding through the LSF and an extensive action research process was implemented to try to ascertain ...
Smart Green Schools Observing the transformation of pedagogies and spaces Wilks, S. (2009) In Australia during 2009/10, billions of federal and state dollars will be invested in school infrastructure under the Building the Education Revolution (BER) and other stimulus packages. It has been suggested that a significant impediment to educators achieving the pedagogical reforms requil'ed by this influx of infrastructure is what Fisher ...
Smart Green Schools Building Leading Pedagogy Wilks, S. (2009) In this paper we hear the voice of an innovative educator observing case‑study schools undergoing major transformation in both the spaces they occupy and the teaching strategies they use. The paper discusses the difficulty of the change process. Sue Wilks argues that new spaces are not enough to bring about ...