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…
Graham Frost is headteacher of the Robert Ferguson primary school in Carlisle and he contributed a blog here earlier in the year following his school’s successful organising of a climate summit. Late last month he contributed to the #iwill conference which featured the launch of Transform Our World – a digital repository of teaching resources for schools…
Here’s a selection of research and other reports related to learning and the environment collated by Natural England. A coordinated research agenda for nature-based learning Jordan & Chawla – Frontiers in Psychology Nature-based learning as an avenue for enhancing children’s educational and developmental outcomes is receiving wide-spread attention. After an extensive review of the literature…
Thanks to everyone who has commented on Bill Scott’s post last Tuesday about a climate change curriculum. Although all the comments can be found alongside the post on the website, we’ve pulled out a few highlights: “The big missing piece, for me — the elephant not invited into the room — is the question of…
Today’s blog is written by our Chair of Trustees, Bill Scott. It explores the issue of a curriculum that is serious about exploring rapid climate change. Bill is writing in a personal capacity, and these are not NAEE’s views. The post was published on his own blog yesterday. Now that it’s become clear that curriculum time…
Here’s a selection of news and research that CLOtC has highlighted recently – in case you missed them. You can follow CLOtC’s research reporting here, and its news output here. Each is regularly updated and so are worth monitoring. The meaning of participation in school ground greening: A study from project to everyday setting.…
Here’s a further selection of research and other reports related to learning and the environment collated by Natural England. An Affective Measure of Nature Connectedness for Children and Adults: Validation, Performance and Insights. Richardson, Hunt, Hinds, Bragg, Fido, Petronzi, Barbett, Clitherow, and White. – Journal of Nature Conservation. To establish the reliability of the new…
This is an update from the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation about the first week of the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) which regulates the trade of such species by subjecting individual species to certain levels of control. These are represented under three appendices which can be found here. Elephants currently sit…