Dr Nicola Walshe & Zoe Moula A rapidly growing body of research shows the benefits – happiness, vitality, and life satisfaction – associated with access to nature and green spaces. Indeed, the recent survey by Natural England, which aimed to understand the perspective of children and young people relating to nature during Covid-19, demonstrated the…
Professor William Scott reviews Rewild Yourself: 23 spellbinding ways to make nature more visible by Simon Barnes, illustrated by Lee Wright. There is a lot to like about this book, and if everyone did even half of what Simon Barnes recommends, their lives would be more fulfilled, and the rest of us would benefit as well. As is…
Today’s post is about the work of the CCC-Catapult project: Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to Tackle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation which set out to examine how young people perceive and experience climate issues. It is published here with the permission of the authors. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed…
Tracking Changes Report – Teach the Future’s Tracked Changes Curriculum Review is now published and our recent blog posts have covered a number of issues about this important development. We’ll be following them up over the coming weeks. . Education for All – The UN has a new plan for global education which ex-PM Gordon Brown says we must support. The UN says that the recent Transforming…
As we noted the other day, Teach the Future has now launched its Curriculum for a Changed Climate: track changes review of the National Curriculum for England. This reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the National Curriculum, covering subjects ranging from History to Art and Design. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the…
Last Friday, Teach the Future launched its Tracked Changes Curriculum Review. This ‘first-of-its-kind’ report reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the English National Curriculum, covering subjects ranging from History to Art and Design. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the report suggests where and how the national curriculum can be amended to include sustainability and respond…
Tracking Changes – Last Friday, Teach the Future launched its Tracked Changes Curriculum Review. This ‘first-of-its-kind’ report reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the English National Curriculum, covering subjects ranging from History to Art and Design. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the report suggests where and how the national curriculum can be amended to include sustainability and respond…
Today’s post is by Geoff Chapman who trained as a botanist, and worked at the University of the West Indies studying tropical plants. and at the University of London’s Wye College. He has published numerous books, for example: Reproductive Versatility in the Grasses, Grass Evolution and Domestication, and The Plant Life of China: Its Diversity and Distribution. During lockdown, with…
The End of the Elizabethan Era – To mark the death of the Queen and the end of the second Elizabethan Era we have a published a list of 50 significant events with an environmental or environmental education focus. This looks at the changes that have occurred over her reign and at some of the significant events that have taken…
With the death of the Queen, the second Elizabethan era comes to a close. Along with the very many tributes that have already been paid to her there have been several that have looked back to the early 1950s when her reign began, in order to chart how things have changed both in the UK and…