Noise pollution at school environment: review study of China and South Africa cases

Abstract

Today, noise pollution in educational institutions presents a serious problematic pushing the world to work on finding durable solutions. Many recent studies have been conducted in many countries for the purpose of reducing and maintaining ambient noise levels inside the school environment to the adequate level, to provide good teaching and learning conditions for both teachers and students. The two articles treating noise pollution at school environment in South Africa and in China, were analysed in this review in order to present different solutions to this problem and their adequacy to maintain noise pollution in scholar environment.

Keywords

• noise
• noise pollution
• school environment
• classroom
• decibel
• amplification system
• soundear