In an article in The Conservation, Bobby Duffy (King’s College London) writes that “people still don’t realise how bad the world’s climate and natural environment have become. Misperceptions about climate change and the ecological crisis are all too clear from a new survey of Americans that tested their understanding of how far the problem has…
The New Zealand Government has announced new resourcing for teaching climate change in schools. Education Minister Chris Hipkins said that students will be taught “the role science plays in understanding climate change, aids understanding of both the response to it and its impacts – globally, nationally and locally – and explores opportunities to contribute to reducing…
Today’s blog is by Morgan Phillips, an NAEE trustee. Its focus is the request from Global Action Plan (GAP) and Reboot the Future for organisations to join them on a project to reframe environmental education. The project is grounded in research into the importance of values to the development of environmental attitudes and behaviours. Morgan Phillips is working on…
Our Chair of Trustees, Bill Scott, here reflects on a 40 year-old publication from HMI. He writes in a personal capacity. The text that follows is a brief extract from a long 1979 HMI publication: Curriculum 11-16 Working papers by HM Inspectorate (second edition, 1979). The section on environmental education is on pages 71 to 74. The whole…
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…