Essential reading for anyone planning to design an eco-home Designing an eco-house is as much about working with your natural surroundings as it is about planning to use the right materials for your building. In this book, Christopher Day draws on his extensive experience to explain the key principles of ecological house design. Beautifully illustrated, it highlights how aesthetics arise from eco-responsible design: they are not add-ons, nor are ecology and art in conflict. This book will give you essential guidance in working with your surroundings, understanding what you can do...
Essential reading for anyone planning to design an eco-home Designing an eco-house is as much about working with your natural surroundings...
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these directions has its own particular cultural, educational and policy history. Taken together, the various chapters in the volume provide a rich and varied mosaic of what is currently known and what is yet to be discovered about the roles and practices of principals, and their contributions to the improvement of teaching and the learning and achievement of students. The particular foci and methodological emphases of the research reported...
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these...
How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses key issues of quality and change in teacher education in the context of the new public management achievement agendas which are permeating teacher education structures, cultures and programmes and the work of teacher educators internationally. Graduate schools of education in the United States and the UK, for example, are making fundamental changes in the structures, courses, programs and faculties that prepare beginning teachers each year....
How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses ...
Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the field considers international research focussing on leadership in schools. Based on the ISSPP (International Successful School Principalship Project) which has conducted over one hundred multiple perspective case studies of successful school principals from more than a dozen countries, the book captures the exhilaration of being a principal who grows and sustains success from those practitioners who are acknowledged as exhibiting outstanding leadership.
Whilst much is known about successful school leaders, the book...
Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the field considers international research focussing on leadership in schools. Based on the ISS...
For Christopher Day, architecture isn t just about the appearance of buildings but how they re experienced as places to be in. Occupants experience can differ radically from designers intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings don t also nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and eco-technologies won t be used efficiently. This major revision of his...
For Christopher Day, architecture isn t just about the appearance of buildings but how they re experienced as places to be in. Occupants exp...
