To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the Lib Dems election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Liberal Democrats believe that education is the best investment we can make in our children’s potential and…
Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin. Before his retirement, Richard led the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, where he launched a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by NAEE.…
Missed Deadline – What progress the government was making to give the final go-ahead to the Natural History GCSE has been brought to a halt by the calling of the general election. It will now be down to the next government to take the necessary steps if it wants to. One thing is clear, though, the possibility of an autumn…
MP Report Cards – A reminder that Teach the Future wants to make sure that the next Parliament’s MPs will take action to improve climate education in schools. It plans to turn the tables on parliamentary candidates by grading them on its report card to reveal their level of ambition for climate education. It has step-by-step guidance to support…
NAEE published an earlier version of this post two years ago arguing that it seemed plausible to think of five essential elements to teaching and learning about climate change. What follows here is an updated version of the original with the five elements remaining unchanged. Five Elements What is climate? What’s the evidence for global…
Teach the Future volunteer, Mystaya Brémaud has shared her perspective on why it’s important for young people to talk to parliamentary candidates about climate education. You can read the blog here. It begins: “Young people often feel hidden by a wall of headlines: the mainstream media voices our statistics more often than our opinions, making our every…
Win us Climate Education – Teach the Future invites us to look at its updated general election webpages. It says, “Help us win climate education this general election.” If you are aged 14 to 26 you can watch its General Election campaign launch on Zoom on Monday May 27th at 1800. . Climate Action Countdown – If you would also like fun ideas for sustainability…
Here’s an additional update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration…
The Conversation had a recent feature on books to inspire climate action. The books highlighted were: Fairhaven Fairhaven is a novel of climate optimism by Steve Willis and Jan Lee set in Malaysia. Through the eyes of an engineer turned celebrity, it sets out a blueprint for how low-lying countries can protect themselves against rising sea…
Nature Connection – Generation Wild was recognised for ‘best contribution towards transforming nature connection’ at the recent 2024 Outdoor Recreation Network awards. The programme offers a free nature connection programme for schools in economically disadvantaged areas and it has just passed a significant milestone with the 100,000th nature activity being completed by participating children. To celebrate this, WWT has produced…