Missing Resource - Piecing Together Pretoria's Creative Future

Abstract

An alternative school is an educational setting designed to accommodate educational, behavioral, and/or medical needs of children and adolescents that cannot be adequately addressed in a traditional school environment (Health 2010).

Many educational facilities fail to cater for the needs of learners that are less conventionally academic and more creatively inclined, by not providing resource facilities that allow for use and growth within them. The Pretoria inner city schools are a good example of this and thus students do not experience perceptive growth in the same manner that students in schools with these resources do. This gap needs to be filled by means of a communal resource sharing facility that allows for use by many different parties through investigation of global and South African educational theories and overlapping building typologies from each to find the specific gaps required to have a successful outcome This allows for equality of opportunity, which is essential in a country like South Africa and allows for people to have the ability to dictate their own futures through cognitive and perceptive growth as well as being essential to wellness of mind. The result of the investigation leads to a small step in the correction of the missing resource in order to improve cognitive and perceptive wellbeing.