Towards a Sustainable School

Abstract

The article addresses the following problematic issues: what essential features make the essence of a sustainable school; what is the relation of sustainable school features in the strategic documents and school activity which is reflected by creating physical environments? Attempts to answer these questions are made in four parts of the article: the first part provides rationale for the features of a sustainable school; in the second part, the research methodology is presented (a case study of three schools was performed); in the third and fourth parts, the research results are presented which show that it is possible to find manifestations of sustainable school in the strategic documents of all the researched schools, however, there is a lack of harmony between separate strategy elements. The research results have shown that even though a systematic objective of sustainable school is not fixed in the strategic documents of the schools, a fragmentary manifestation of separate features is noticed in the school activity, especially when creating physical environments.