Ben Ballin comments on a recent report from a research project that he was involved in at a Special School in Birmingham where he worked with teacher-researchers to try to understand the contribution of global learning to the wellbeing and mental health of young people aged 11–19 with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Our headline finding is that,…
Tim Baker Headteacher, Charlton Manor School, Greenwich, and an NAEE Fellow, writes about a recent school trip to Cornwall. On the farm Recently I organised a trip for 6 pupils to stay on a farm in Cornwall for 4 days. During this time, they practised and learned skills such as fire lighting, shelter building and raft…
Learning Away has a new CPD training programme to help put together brilliant residentials which is going live in September. This has been developed with teachers and the modules draw on the real-life experiences and learnings from schools. The programme has two strands, one for the school leadership team and one for teachers. The programme aims to help develop…
The latest Green Teacher (Vol 116) has been published. Here are the contents: Maskwi’omin: A Birch Bark Antibiotic by Matthias Bierenstiel, Tuma T.W. Young and Kathy Snow Bringing Western and Indigenous methods to the science classroom The Wild About Vancouver Festival by Elizabeth Beattie and Hartley Banack An annual outdoor education festival that encourages everyone to…
Registration is open for the 47th NAAEE annual conference in Spokane from 10 to 13 October. It will focus on the power of education to create positive change for the future. NAAEE says: “EE is a force for building a more civically engaged citizenry. It’s a force for creating a more diverse and inclusive movement.…
The Summer 2018 edition [ Vol 118 ] is now available to members c/o the NAEE website. This has been edited by Henricus Peters and Juliette Green and has a focus on Literacy. Its contents include: Ecoliteracy – David Whitley Teaching literacy outside – Juliet Robertson Persuasive writing about plastics – Julie Williams Green story competition – Denise Baden The next generation of…
London’s Natural History Museum says it’s all a flutter about scientists studying the way dragonflies fly in the hope of making small planes more stable and robust. It adds: “Dragonflies are some of the most mobile insects on the planet. They can control the angle and speed of each of their four wings independently to…
UKSSD’s new report, Measuring up, shows for the first time how the UK is performing on the Sustainable Development Goals. You can download the whole report here. And the ‘quality education’ section of the report which NAEE contributed to is here. UKSSD says: “While there’s an enormous amount to celebrate, the most vunerable people and places in our society…
The Woodland Trust says nominate your tree of the year. Nominations are open to any living tree in the UK with a story to tell and any individual, group or organisation can nominate a tree until 9 am on 6 August. Winning trees from previous years are excluded. The UN has published Ocean Literacy for all.…
The GLP has compiled research and evaluation studies on global learning in schools in England. You can access it here. Recent output includes GLP Research Papers Vikki Pendry (2018) Using global data in primary mathematics Helen Lawson (2018) Primary pupils’ attitudes towards and understandings of poverty Hilary L. Alcock and Linda Ramirez Barker (2016) Can global learning raise standards within…