School design matters : how school design relates to the practice and experience of schooling Exploring debates and issues from a number of different professional and academic perspectives School Design Matters results from a rich collaboration between schools architects engineers educationalists and policymakers to consider what an inspiring teaching and learning environment might look life. Case studies and first hand student and teacher experiences allow analysis of the ways in which environmental factors might transform pedagogy shape patterns of leadership improve student engagement and enhance social interactions within and beyond the school community. Experts in their fields the authros acknowledge the signifiance of sociocultural contexts reference relevant policy and tackle the tensions dilemmas and contradictions which frequently arise as schools and professionals in the design and construction sectors collaborate in the creation of buildings which fulfil the needs of diverse invested parties back cover