Nature as Teacher – Systems thinking
Today's blog is the latest in a series from 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. As ever, with our blogs, Richard's views [...]
May 24th 2021
Boycotting Carbon Capture – The UK Student Climate Network is urging a boycott the London Science Museum's new climate exhibition: Our Future Planet, which is opening later this month because Shell is a sponsor. The UKSCN argument is that "it is appalling that Shell, a company causing mass environmental degradation, [...]
Shall we welcome nature’s migrants?
This is an edited and slightly updated version of something Bill Scott, our Chair of Trustees, wrote for NAEE in 2016. We post it now with this question in mind: has anything really changed? As ever with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily those of NAEE. The continuing [...]
My School, My Planet
The Learning Through Landscape's My School, My Planet pilot outdoor education programme supported children from disadvantaged ethnic groups and low-income families to re-engage with learning as they transitioned into the new academic year following the first Covid-19 related lockdown. Participating pupils were offered academic learning focused on three core subjects as a [...]
May 17th 2021
Talking About Education – A new paper for Earth Day from the USA says that climate policymakers cannot afford to overlook the transformational power of schools (K-12), saying: "Every World Leader Should Be Talking About Education". When they say that "It is vital that education and climate leaders alike recognize [...]
Alex White
Alex is a 17-year old photographer and blogger who is passionate about British wildlife, especially showing people how easy it is to find wildlife without having to travel too far away from your own home. He has been blogging about his local area since 2013, and you can read his [...]
Teaching in England: Big changes – bigger questions
Today's blog is by Paul Vare of the University of Gloucestershire where he has responsibility for research development in the School of Education and Humanities. He writes here about teacher education. As ever, with our blogs, Paul's views are not necessarily shared by NAEE. Reading Gavin Williamson’s recent speech, in which he reiterated the Government’s [...]
May 10th 2021
The most important text – Last week, Greta Thunberg wrote this on Twitter: "This is one of the most important and informative texts I have ever read on the climate- and ecological crises. It's quite long, but worth every second of reading. Please republish and share wherever possible." The text [...]
Time to make nature studies a compulsory school subject – before it’s too late
Today's post is an article by Matthew Adams, a psychologist from the University of Brighton. It was recently published in The Conversation and is reproduced here with permission. The UK government is reported to be seriously considering making “nature studies” a compulsory subject for all pupils. It’s a move that [...]
May 3rd 2021
DfE has a Vision – In a speech last week to the Annual Conference of the Confederation of School Trusts, Gavin Williamson said that he wanted "to share an ambitious vision for our country’s schools". You can read it here. To save you too much by way of anticipatory excitement [...]
Environmental Justice
As a follow-up to Rebecca Newman's post earlier this week, this is an edited and updated version of the chapter on environmental justice that was written by Bill Scott and Paul Vare in their 2018 book: The World we'll Leave behind: grasping the sustainability challenge. As ever with our blogs [...]
Exploring environmental justice education: Learning to fight for our future
This post is by Rebecca Newman who is studying for a BA in human geography and is a member of NAEE's blog team. As ever with our blogs, Rebecca's views are not necessarily those of the Association. “You must not gamble your children’s future on the flip of a coin. [...]
