EDAE 581A1 - School/Community Environmental Safety

An introduction to environmental issues related to world wide and community safety. Covers the history, challenges, costs, design approaches, research and cultural and political issues that impact physical environments of communities and schools. Core areas of study include an international perspective in these areas:

• Review of critical historical, theoretical political and legal perspectives related to strategic environmental issues in school and community safety.
• Crime prevention through environmental design strategies.
• Developing and conducting a safe environmental assessment in a school and the surrounding community.
• World-wide resources, research, and ethical and best practices for schools and communities related to environmental safety strategies.
• International, cross-cultural and political perspectives that influence the ability to create and modify school and community environments.

Instructors

Andy Briers
Andy.Briers@btinternet.com

Dr. Andrew N. Briers, a police officer in the U.K., is the Coordinator for the Safer Schools Programme. The first officer in the U.K. to be placed in a school on a full time basis, he completed his M.A. on Community Policing and Truancy and was awarded the Fulbright Police Fellowship where he traveled to the U.S. to study the role of law enforcement agencies in schools as part of his PhD research in conjunction with Middlesex University. He was awarded the National Training Contract for Safer School Partnership.

Andy has spoken at Conferences in the U.K. and U.S. on youth crime and related strategies and is a senior lecturer at Middlesex University, Centre of Excellence for Work Based Learning. Andy has written numerous articles and the book "Safer School Communities." Receipt of the Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award enabled him to set up an exchange programme between U.K. and U.S. school based police officers. This has led to the creation of the Organizations for Excellence in Education at Colorado State University, where Andrew is a Professor adjunct.

Ellyn Dickmann
ellynd@psdschools.org

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