Francis Review – The latest in our series of posts about the Francis Review of the national curriculum were published last week. All the posts can be found here. When the series is complete, we shall share it with Francis team. Let us know what you think.
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2024 AGM – The Association’s AGM is on Thursday November 28th, 1800 to 1930. We’re very pleased to have Katharine Burke as guest speaker. Katherine is the author of Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education published by the Hawthorn Press.
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DERC Webinars – DERC is hosting Zoom webinars that showcase the main themes that have emerged from students’ research and its relevance to broader debates in the field of global education and learning. Please click on these event headings for more information, and to register.
- November 27th 16:00 Misleading Opportunities: Global Competency Frameworks in Ontario Teacher Education (David Montemurro)
- December 11, 14:00 Reframing Global Citizenship: Confucian values and Chinese characteristics (Ziyuan Wang & Enze Guo)
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Sustaining Learning – The Elephant Times Association [ETA] says that much has been achieved over the years that has led to a recognition that global learning has an important role in meeting the essential needs of learners growing up in rapidly changing, complex and often confusing world. But it asks: how do we build an archive that: contributes to sustaining that learning, enables debate about the implications for teachers, and questions the assumptions of much curriculum control? ETA would like our help in responding to these issues.
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Board Games – The latest SEEd news round up highlights two board games recommended by MIT Technology Review for those interested in building sustainable strategies and tackling sustainability-related issues. Daybreak is a co-operative game where players must work together to cut emissions and survive disasters. Settlers of Catan, now has a climate-focused edition called New Energies. In this version, players construct power plants and choose between fossil fuels or renewables to generate energy.
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TEESNet Update – Click here to read the latest from TEESNet and its work with SOS-UK / Teach the Future.
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Ocean Literacy – A new toolkit for educators from UNESCO sets out to contribute to the advancement of ocean literacy and the SDGs in the Atlantic Region.
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Go on! – The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) will be hosting this year’s edition of Ocean Acidification Week from 18-22 November 2024. This is a virtual symposium for the ocean acidification community to exchange their latest findings, bringing together researchers across the world in thematic sessions, community discussions, and engaging talks about ocean acidification research. This year, the virtual OA week will highlight the ocean acidification knowledge we need to restore humanity’s relationship with the ocean. Updates on the programme and schedule will be published on the GOA-ON website
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Celebrating Nature – Next year’s Festival of Nature, will run from Friday 6th to Sunday 15th June. This is the UK’s largest annual celebration of the natural world and will be returning to Bristol and Bath.
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LPI 24 – Our World in Data has a feature on the 2024 Living Planet Index (LPI) report which was published recently. The headline is a 73% average decline in wildlife populations from 1970 to 2020. The article says that while these trends are extremely worrying, the numbers presented in the report are often misunderstood or misreported. In a new article, Hannah Ritchie and Fiona Spooner give a short overview of what the LPI numbers mean — and don’t mean — and what some of the data underneath the headline figure shows.
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Representing Nature – The Guardian reports that Ruth Davis has been named special representative for nature with a brief to put climate and nature at the heart of UK foreign policy.
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Optioning Solar – The Guardian also reports that the government is considering making solar panels optional on new homes in England after pressure from housebuilders. Ministers are preparing to publish long-delayed regulations for new homes, known as the future homes standard, which would ensure that all newly built homes are low-carbon. These rules should include requirements that homes are not connected to the gas grid, are insulated to a high standard and can generate renewable energy. But instead of requiring housebuilders to equip new homes with an adequate number of solar panels, current plans for the future homes standard are only to “encourage” builders to equip homes with some solar panels “where appropriate”.