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Almost all of the new money poured into school facilities reinforces an existing - and obsolete - model of schooling. In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nair explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey. He provides simple, affordable, and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support student-centered learning.

Produktbeschreibung
Almost all of the new money poured into school facilities reinforces an existing - and obsolete - model of schooling. In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nair explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey. He provides simple, affordable, and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support student-centered learning.
Autorenporträt
Prakash Nair is the president of Fielding Nair International (FNI), a renowned international architectural firm that specializes in the design of innovative schools. FNI has consultations in forty-three countries on six continents. Prakash is a futurist, a visionary planner, an architect, and one of the world's leading change agents in education and school design. He has helped dozens of communities globally to align their physical space with their pedagogical needs. He is the recipient of several international awards, including the prestigious CEFPI MacConnell Award, the top honor worldwide for school design. He has written extensively in leading national and international journals. His work has been published in Education Week, School Planning and Management magazine, School Business Affairs, School Construction News, Edutopia, Annenberg Institute's VUE, OECD's Programme on Educational Building, the United Kingdom's Schools for Life, Australian Education Union's Professional Voice, Teacher: The National Education Magazine of Australia, and Rethink!--Ideas for Inspiring School Library Design. He also coauthored, with Randall Fielding, the landmark publication The Language of School Design. He has been interviewed many times by print, radio, and television media and is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at international education conferences. You can learn more about Prakash Nair and the projects featured in this book by visiting http: //FieldingNair.com, or contact him at Prakash@FieldingNair.com.