CELEEXCHANGE October 2012
Editorial • What's new • Articles • Other news • Publications (Click on the titles below to read more)
What's new: CELE and OECD activities • CELE/World Bank workshop on facilities for young children in Moscow From 30 May to 1 June 2012, CELE teamed up with the World Bank to organise a workshop on the topic of modern, integrated and cost- and energy-efficient facilities for young children titled “Ready, Steady, Go! Inspiring Design of Learning Environments for Early Childhood Education and Care”.
• Enhancing University Competitiveness through Educational Facilities Some 120 people from 19 countries attended CELE’s conference: “Enhancing University Competitiveness through Educational Facilities” (Seoul, 18-20 June). It was co-organised with the Korean Educational Development Institute’s education research centre (EDUMAC) and co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
• CELE invites submissions and sponsors for its Database of Best Practices in Educational Facilities Investment Why not contribute to the hundreds of exemplary school and university projects in this widely used resource? Categories range from flexible learning settings to special needs provision. Submit a project today!
Articles • School closures and community revitalisation: the case of Óbidos, Portugal Rural communities in many countries are faced with the need to restructure their school networks and close some smaller facilities. Óbidos, a town in western Portugal, provides a case study of how to meet these challenges by creating new school complexes that offer improved educational opportunities to the teaching staff, students and local people.
• Norway’s day-care initiative: a municipal approach Norway is gearing up to provide places in day care centres for all children aged between one and six and the need for more facilities has therefore increased substantially in recent years. In Tromsø, the municipality has become closely involved in child-care pedagogics and architecture; a design competition it launched has brought rewarding results.
Other news • CEFPI applauds 2012 School of the Future Design Competition winners CEFPI’s recent school design competition challenged candidates to think creatively as they plan and design tomorrow’s green schools. Their projects demonstrated that students had a deep understanding of how to create a sustainable future.
• “The greenest school on earth” “The greenest school on earth” dispenses a mix of academic education with a profound respect for the environment. Its founders aim to make a difference: it seems that they will.
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• Future Learning Environments In what sort of spaces will students be learning tomorrow? The seminar “Future Learning Environments – How Space Impacts on Learning” set out to explore the question. It was held on 3-5 June at the Nobel Forum in the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
• The Zayed Future Energy Prize launches Global High Schools Category A new category of the Zayed Future Energy Prize will fund forward-looking sustainable energy projects in high (secondary) schools across the world.
• Innovative bioclimatic European school complex in Crete: design competition Participants will design an innovative and bioclimatic school complex that uses renewable and efficient energy sources; its state-of-the-art design should also be conducive to educational best practices.
• Christchurch, New Zealand: engaging the community on education renewal The earthquakes that rocked the South Island of New Zealand changed the education landscape for learners in and around the country’s third largest city. Now there is an opportunity for the community to have a say in the future shape of education provision.
• Combining school and community development In the village of Fiskars, Finland, the local school already provides an extended learning environment but it is now being further developed: it will also serve as an adult education centre, thereby contributing to community development.
• LearnSpace: a vision for schools of the future LearnSpace provides an ideal opportunity for policy makers, design and education professionals, teacher trainees and learners to collectively explore effective, innovative learning environments.
• NSW Architecture Awards: top honours go to “a fine model for a school of the future” This stunning addition was acclaimed by the jury for “… its elegant planning, the sheer delight of the library space, and strong sculptural presence … (it) expresses the aspirations of a community…”.
Publications • Escuelas de Tiempo Completo en Uruguay, by Proyecto de Apoyo a la Escuela Pública Uruguaya, 160 pp. This publication details one of the major tasks for which PAEPU (Proyecto de Apoyo a la Escuela Pública Uruguaya - Project supporting Uruguayan public schools) is responsible: designing and constructing full-time schools. It explores the relationship between school architecture and academic provision; it describes planning stages, the key features of projects, processes and equipment. It also showcases some 30 facilities and projects. It is published in Spanish by Proyecto de Apoyo a la Escuela Pública Uruguaya; see http://www.mecaep.edu.uy/imgnovedades/Libro_arquitectura/Ebook/index.html.
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