Links between school buildings and the wellbeing of students and education professionals. What’s happening in the Australian context?

Abstract

Support for the health and wellbeing of school students and education professionals is increasingly recognised as critically important to achieving education goals. Indeed, the World Health Organization’s Health Promoting Schools program strives to increase the capacity of schools to promote healthy settings for living, learning, and working (WHO, 2023). Built environments have an important role to play in this context. School buildings can enable or constrain the provision of healthy environments for teaching and learning through the indoor environmental qualities (IEQ) they offer users (i.e., access to natural/artificial light, good air quality, thermal comfort, and conducive acoustic co..