Abstract

An exploration of learning environments within and around green schools provides the basis for this chapter. One of its most important goals is to encourage research on where students learn and the quantity of information that students learn, with parallel emphasis on sustainability, school design, and green schools. A general theme is to encourage the study of green schools within the broader context of the total physical environment, while viewing learning experiences and achievement of students through social, economic, efficacy, and sustainability perspectives. Several sustainable design perspectives are included in this chapter, and findings in five areas of school design research are associated with selected green school concepts. As a rather unique component akin to the affective dimension of explaining research findings, acknowledgement of the biophilia hypothesis is suggested as an alternative pathway to view context and enhance depth in research methods, procedures, and interpretation.

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