Sustainable school projects as the education tool for delivering sustainability
Sustainable school projects as the education tool for delivering sustainability作者机构:Cardiff University
出 版 物:《Journal of Chongqing University》 (重庆大学学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2012年第11卷第2期
页 面:74-83页
基 金:Funded by the Welsh Government in collaboration with Welsh Local Government Association as part of the 21st Century Schools Program in Wales Self-dependent Innovation Fund of State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science in South China University of Technology (No. 2011ZC11)
主 题:sustainable school inspirational framework multi-stakeholders community change for sustainability
摘 要:In the past ten years,many exemplar projects are completed in China to encourage the sharing of knowledge and experience of *** of these projects are landmark buildings,and because they can attract more public attentions,they raise more awareness of sustainable ***,school projects are rarely mentioned in the news and annual inspirational project *** fundamental point of this paper is to challenge the common concept in China that school buildings are only used exclusively by children in formal *** to the paper s review of the school schemes in England and Wales,not only the inspirational sustainable schools created the opportunities and responsibilities to accelerate positive changes,but also they developed a vision of an asset that supports lifelong learning and sustainable lifestyles for the whole *** this paper,the definition of a sustainable school is summarised by comparing the statements and concepts in England and ***,a wide range of benefits gained by project stakeholders and communities are also demonstrated through case *** the end,lessons and innovations which can be learnt by Chinese school projects are *** illustrations provided by this paper do not aim to solve all issues of promoting a sustainable school in China,but to open people s minds to the impacts of their actions,and to build the knowledge and cooperative framework to promote public sustainable projects.