The NAEE blog this week (published on Tuesday 14th) is a comment on an HMI document on curriculum and environmental education. Here’s a taster: “What is perhaps most important is to convey the realisation that environmental systems are complex and environmental problems not easily resolved. This cannot readily be done solely through the medium of individual subjects…
Graham Frost is headteacher of Robert Ferguson Primary School, Carlisle. He has written for NAEE before. You can hear him speaking about his work on climate change activism in schools on the NAHT Leadership Podcast on Soundcloud. You can find Graham on Twitter – @GrahamFrost1
Happy New Year from everyone at NAEE. UKSCN sent out a New Year reflection to its supporters that looked back at 2019 and forward to 2020. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the international Fridays For Future movement, the Network coordinated the first strike on 15th February 2019. Tens of thousands of students walked out of school to protest about…
David Bellamy, who was NAEE President for many years, died last Wednesday. He was a good fit with NAEE because of his interest in promoting environmental issues and educating (in the broadest sense) people about them, including through television (particularly ITV beginning in the late 1970s). He was ahead of his time in this given that…
Tabassum Fatima, Chloe Mason, Katy Harley & Sophie Steadman write about their schools’ visits to Martineau Gardens which was funded by a Kenrick bursary from NAEE. The itinerary lived up to its promise of delivering a well-rounded experience of the botanical and zoological aspects of the year 6 curriculum. The visual aids and use of the…
Here’s a recent round up from Natural England of recent evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve links between research, policy and…
NAEE’s latest journal is now on the members’ page of the website. Vol 122 was published in conjunction with the London Environmental Educators’ Forum [ LEEF ] with a focus on urban environmental & sustainability education. In addition to the usual features, its contents included: Urban environmental & sustainability education as a space for social connections…
Resurrection Trust is a book of “funny, dark, mad, bad, upbeat, downbeat and fantastical short stories about living sustainably”. They arose from the University of Southampton’s Green Stories writing competition. The editor, Amanda Saint, says that the stories “showcase a myriad of different ideas about how humans can live more harmoniously with nature, and each…
As we noted last week, The Economist has a new fortnightly summary of climate change issues. Its first edition focused on the annual UN climate talks now being in Madrid. These are a prelude to next year’s COP26 in Glasgow when the nearly 200 countries that signed up to the Paris agreement in 2015 are expected to commit…
Teach the Future has done an analysis of the election manifestos published so far. Although there are few surprises, it would be an interesting exercise for older students to compare TTF’s analysis with their own readings of the huge number of promises being made. ∫∫∫ . Meanwhile the European Parliament has declared a climate emergency and called…