The City of Lisbon, Portugal, is working to better integrate children with disabilities at primary school level. It recently has undertaken an accessible school programme and has restored an historic building as part of this effort.

Describing primary schools in a small city in Portugal is an opportunity for an overall look at the evolution of schools in general as special public buildings. A look at four of the six primary schools in the city of Caldas da Rainha shows how these public buildings have evolved, what they...

Open plan schools have been largely contested in Portugal; many teachers, administrators and even parents consider this model of schooling inappropriate and therefore a failure. Recently however the Escola da Ponte, one of the open plan schools that has survived, was recognised as one of the...

<i>This article is an extract from a presentation made by Isabel Mendinhos to the PEB Steering Committee in June 1999. The project she describes, School 2001, concerns a school for lower secondary education,</i> School E.B. 2,3 Professor Galopin de Carvalho <i>in Pendao, Portugal where she teaches.</i> A new...

The roles and functions of the school library are changing rapidly and in fundamental ways. The aim of the report is to provide a set of guidelines for people involved in the design of new and existing schools – especially those involved with school libraries and their links with the local...

Portugal has created a questionnaire on educational facilities as part of a larger auditing programme by the General Inspection for Education to evaluate the country's schools. The main objective of the facilities evaluation is to determine how site, design and management contribute to the...

L’étude des écoles primaires d’une petite ville portugaise offre, plus largement, un aperçu de l’évolution des établissements scolaires en général. Ces bâtiments publics présentent en effet de nombreuses spécificités. L’observation de quatre des six écoles primaires de la...

Au Portugal, les écoles bâties sur le modèle de l’open space, ou espace paysager, ont suscité de vives critiques ; nombre de professeurs, d’administrateurs et même de parents considèrent que ce modèle spatial d’enseignement n’est pas adapté, et constitue à ce titre un échec....

La municipalité de Lisbonne (Portugal), qui s’efforce d’améliorer l’accueil des enfants souffrant de déficiences à l’école primaire, a récemment mis en oeuvre un programme visant à rendre les écoles plus accessibles et a restauré un bâtiment historique dans le cadre de ce projet.

In 2005, the OECD Programme on Educational Building (PEB) organised two international experts’ group meetings to discuss how countries define and evaluate quality in educational facilities. The research and experiences of six experts are presented in this article, in addition to the lessons...