Today’s post is by Elsa Lee (with inspiration from Paul Vare, Alex Catallo, the consortium of collaborators working on the Curriculum for a Changing Climate project, Teach the Future, and SOS-UK). Elsa is NAEE’s deputy director. In the post she writes about the recent track change research for Teach the Future which saw key national…
Live at COP 27 – Does your school want to explore global issues during COP27 and be part of the call for collective action? Find out more about the key international frameworks that support action on climate change and explore national and international responses to the conference themes from children and young people, community groups and ministerial bodies. You…
Today’s post is by Richard Jurin who, before his retirement, ran the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, launching a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. Today he writes about the idea of emergy. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are…
Here’s another 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 in…
Young Advocates – UNESCO says that young people are a critical population who are leading ESD-related projects, but often do not have the means to access institutional visibility that organizations often can. For this reason, it is launching the Young Advocates 4 ESD Challenge and calling on all young people under 25 years old to share their stories about…
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…