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Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning
Prakash Nair
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Description for Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: AMC; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 189 x 14. Weight in Grams: 442.
The United States has about $10.5 trillion tied up in aging school facilities. School districts throughout the country spend about $30 billion every year keeping this infrastructure going. Yet almost all of the new money we pour into school facilities reinforces an existing - and obsolete - model of schooling. In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nair - one of the world's leading school designers - explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey and advocates for the alignment of the design of places in which we teach and learn with twenty-first-century learning ... Read more
The United States has about $10.5 trillion tied up in aging school facilities. School districts throughout the country spend about $30 billion every year keeping this infrastructure going. Yet almost all of the new money we pour into school facilities reinforces an existing - and obsolete - model of schooling. In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nair - one of the world's leading school designers - explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey and advocates for the alignment of the design of places in which we teach and learn with twenty-first-century learning ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
441g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612507040
SKU
V9781612507040
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Ref
99-3
About Prakash Nair
Prakash Nair is the founding president of Fielding Nair International, an award-winning school planning and design firm with consultations in thirty-eight countries. Prior to establishing Fielding Nair International, Nair worked as the director of operations for the world's largest school construction program in New York City, USA.
Reviews for Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning
Nair gives a Blueprint for Tomorrow, thoroughly explaining how today's education dollars can be spent for tomorrow's success.
Jackie Craven, ThoughtCo. His intriguing and informative book Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning successfully proves that the effective use of space is of paramount importance and needs to be prioritized...Regardless of a school's budget for renovation, this ... Read more
Jackie Craven, ThoughtCo. His intriguing and informative book Blueprint for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning successfully proves that the effective use of space is of paramount importance and needs to be prioritized...Regardless of a school's budget for renovation, this ... Read more