School Design Matters ― How School Environments Relate to the Practice and Experience of Teaching and Learning

The Design Matters? project on which this book is based produced the most accurate picture ever of the effects of school design on the practice and experience of school, from perspectives of teachers, students and parents. This book reviews its fascinating conclusions and shows how school design does not simply cause outcomes, but offers opportunities for, and constraints on, practices. It highlights the degree to which good school design can influence expectations and philosophies of school leaders, and how continuity of vision from design-to-build- to-occupation may produce more harmonious outcomes. This is a vital contribution to the debates about school design on a number of levels.

Harry Daniels is Professor of Education in the Department of Education, University of Oxford

Andrew Stables is Professor of Education and Philosophy and Deputy Director for Research at the University of Roehampton

Hau Ming Tse is a Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford

Sarah Cox Research Assistant in the Department of Education at the Universities of Bath and Oxford.

Adolfo Tanzi Neto Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Rebecca Tracz Department of Education at The University of Oxford.