In school, 'Make Yourself At Home' can be organised as class or whole-school projects, involving a variety of subjects across the curriculum, including art, design and technology, ICT, geography, history, number and language. Out of school they all embrace education for sustainability and citizenship at all ages.
In general people of any age can develop a wide range of skills and capabilities through:
• Connecting people with their local environment.
• Helping them to understand how it is shaped and managed.
• Nurturing a personal, emotional response to develop a sense of place.
• Enabling people to make judgements about aesthetic and design qualities.
• Encouraging people to identify environmental issues and become aware of the need for change and improvement.
• Prompting design activity, where a community can generate and test out
ideas for change.
• Developing a learners’ confidence and skills to share their work
with others.
The local environment is a valuable educational resource. It offers infinite possibilities for study. It is free, constantly available and easily accessible!
Projects can include: advertising, architecture, buildings, decoration, gardens, heritage, housing, landscape, messages and meanings, natural form, shops, public and private
space and sustainability issues.
MYAH can embrace education for sustainability and citizenship, developing a wide range of skills and capabilities through:
• Connecting people with their local environment.
• Helping them to understand how it is shaped and managed.
• Nurturing a personal, emotional response to develop a sense
of place.
• Enabling people to make judgements about aesthetic and
design qualities.
• Encouraging people to identify environmental issues and become
aware of the need for change and improvement.
• Prompting design activity, where people generate and test out
ideas for change.
• Developing peoples’ confidence and skills to share their work
with others.
The local environment is a valuable educational resource. It offers infinite possibilities for study. It is free, constantly available andeasily accessible! Projects can include: advertising, architecture, buildings, decoration, gardens, heritage, housing, landscape,
messages and meanings, natural form, shops, public and private space and sustainability issues. The townscape – the form and appearance of our villages and towns – contains so many ideas for study that it is difficult to know where to begin! Schools can start with whatever is within walking distance.