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…
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
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…
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…
Ria Dunkley, Lecturer in Geography, Environment and Sustainability, at the University of Glasgow, writes in The Conversation about the importance of bringing climate change into the curriculum: It’s too late to protect them from it, so how do teachers tell children about climate change without scaring them? The good news is that young people are already…
So said Zamzam Ibrahim, the NUS and SOS_UK President in her address to the recent NUS sustainability summit. More fully, she said: “Our leaders are making bad decisions because they have been badly educated.” This is how her talk begins: “SOS-UK is NUS’s brand new sustainability charity, created so we can go further and faster with our sustainability…
Today’s post is by Arjen Wals, the well-known international environmental educator and researcher who writes: “Last month I attended the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Hamburg. Around 3000 participants from over 60 countries attended the conference. Since the overall theme was ‘Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research…
Today we feature a blog from St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Norwich. In this, the year 5 students recount their recent visit to How Hill which is an environmental study centre in the Norfolk Broads. Here are a few of the children’s many comments about what they did and how much they enjoyed it:…
Today’s blog is by Mick Haining. This post is one he recently contributed to Extinction Rebellion. As with all our guest blogs, the view’s expressed are the author’s. As Naomi Klein puts it, “this changes everything”. This particular climate change is a product of human ways of living and, if it is to be slowed…
On July 3rd The Green Schools Project ran a schools climate conference for students from Year 5 to 12 at UCL, bringing together almost 200 students from 13 schools. In this blog, Green Schools Director, Henry Greenwood reflects on the conference and what it achieved. As with all NAEE blogs, the views expressed are the writer’s. We didn’t…
This (longer than usual) post is by Alan Reid (Monash University), the editor of Environmental Education Research. Alan’s writing in a personal capacity about the Global Environmental Education Partnership which is meeting at the end of this week at the NAAEE conference in Lexington KY. 1 What do people care about in environmental education? I…