• Case Studies
• Family Guide to the School Environment
• Youth Poll
• Manifesto for Learning Environments
• Ideas Book
• Learning Technologies and Schools of the Future
• Sustainable Schools - Getting it right
• DVD - Green Futures: Teaching Sustainability
• Non-BCSE Publications
• The New 3Rs

Manifesto for learning environments - a call to action
 

'Manifesto for learning environments -- a call to action', published by the British Council for School Environments (BCSE) and the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), identifies a number of core principles which taken together support the creation of truly effective environments for learning.

These core areas include:

• - Ensuring design is focussed on the needs of teaching and learning.
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• - Guaranteeing participation in the design, build and equipping process by children, teachers and other 'experts' who will use the new buildings.
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• - Ensuring schools are built to sustainable standards.
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• - Streamlining procurement processes to make them easier for all those involved in building and equipping schools, allowing room for choice and diversity.
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• - Promoting ideas of quality design and standards to develop safe, attractive and functional buildings and equipment.
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• - Encouraging a 'small school' culture to help nurture individual development and innovation.
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• - Testing innovation by encouraging all those who design, build, manage and equip schools to challenge the status quo around learning environments design and resourcing.

To read the manifesto click here