Today’s blog is the first in a series by Ben Murphy who is a member of the University of Glasgow team co-ordinating the Scottish contribution to the Walk the Global Walk programme. The team is led by Dr Ines Alves and Dr Ria Dunkley, along with the city of Glasgow council’s international education officer Lesley Atkins. As ever with…
The Glorious Twelfth – The DfE has said that should the easing of lockdown continue to go to plan, schools can resume educational day visits from the 12th of April. DfE stresses that visits must be conducted in line with relevant coronavirus (COVID-19) secure guidelines and the regulations in place at that time. This includes…
Know Your Nature: British Wildlife sets out to introduce the reader to some of the more common flora and fauna found in and around the British Isles. Produced as a hardback board book, the contents are laid out to give a double page spread to a total of fourteen different categories of plant or animal groups.…
Guy Willcock, young environmentalist I first realised I was living in the middle of a mass annual amphibian migration when I was nine. Every February, thousands of toads, frogs and newts would make their halting way across the road outside our house, all going in one direction. Their destination was a lake just below our…
Today’s blog is by Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR. He writes in response to an earlier blog on these pages by Melissa Glackin. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Association. Firstly, I’d like to thank Melissa Glackin for engaging with OCR’s proposals for a Natural History GCSE,…
70% of teachers – A research report has been published detailing what UK teachers think about the current state and future of climate education. It was commissioned by Teach the Future. Its headline finding is that 70% of teachers feel they have not received adequate training to educate students on climate change, on its implications for the…
Today’s blog is by NAEE President, Justin Dillon, Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Exeter. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Association. On March 13, 2019, the day after MPs again voted down the Government’s negotiated Brexit withdrawal agreement, Chancellor of…
Elena Lengthorn, Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Worcester What is the power of our words and how can we harness their power to create a better world for wildlife? Many of us will have heard the old adage of ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me’. It’s an…
A Shared Vision for the Future. – The Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability website is now live, and UK-based teachers and 16 to 18 year olds are able to sign up for online, free workshops which will form the basis for the creation of the Manifesto. This is part of the BERA research commission on…
Raichael Lock, Manchester Environmental Education Network (MEEN) As Maria Puig de le Bellacasa1 argued recently in her plenary at the Royal Geographic Society Conference in London, ‘soil’ is a perfect metaphor for our troubled relationship with the ‘Earth’. So, that means, for urban ES educators, teaching about mud is more important than ever. In Manchester, the…