The Impact of School Learning Environments

The message is clear. School designs cannot be imposed nor bought off–the-shelf. Success lies in users being able to articulate a distinctive vision for their school and then working with designers and architects to create integrated solutions.The open-plan classroom movement showed that purely physical design solutions that are not owned by their users or supported with effective systems and behaviour change will not work.Toby Greany, Campaign Leader - Learning Environments.Design Council, February 2005

This literature review looks in detail at academic research on learning environments and how they affect the people who use them. Prepared by the University of Newcastle and sponsored by CfBT Research and Development.