Here’s the full text of the letter sent by Teachers for Climate Truth (part of XR) to the DfE: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told us last October that we have 12 years to radically change every aspect of society if we are to avoid disaster. Highly regarded scientists, like Peter Wadhams, have highlighted…
Today’s blog is by Rachel Cook a PhD student at King’s College, London who volunteers with the Lambeth Natural Thinkers project and with LEEF, the London Environmental Educators’ Forum. It is an interesting paradox that no one speaks more loudly than young people when they have been persistently silenced. Thanks to young peoples’ direct action to demand greater environmental action from the…
Last week we featured the NAEE response to Ofsted’s consultation on its proposed revisions to its inspection framework. This is the response by NUS to Ofsted: “We welcome the proposal to introduce a quality of education judgement and to judge personal development separately from behaviour and attitudes. Specifically, we very much welcome the new…
Ofsted recently launched a consultation seeking views on its proposals for changes to the education inspection framework from September 2019. NAEE has contributed to (and supported) the response to Ofsted made by the Natural Environment Sector Partnership [NESP], which is organised by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom on behalf of the learning outside the classroom sector. …
Mr Gove has written in support of the UK school students striking for climate change. He did not suggest they do this when he was Secretary of State for Education in the Coalition government. Meanwhile, the current Secretary of State for Education disagreed. Speaking at the annual ASCL conference last week, Damian Hinds urged children to stop walking…
Here’s a further set of evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from Natural England. This supports the Strategic Research Network for Learning in Natural Environments and Outdoors for All to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve links between research, policy and practice in…
The website of the International League of Conservation Photographers has a blog by Melissa Groo titled: From Wild to Captive: A Call for Ethics in Modern Nature Photography. The post is written because of a perceived lack of ethics in relation to capturing images of wild creatures. This problem applies to moving images as well, of course, and…
The Fall 2018 edition of Canada’s Green Teacher (Vol 118) has been published. Here are the contents: Plastic Grass isn’t Greener by Rochelle Rubinstein An exploration of the environmental and human health hazards of artificial turf in our schools and communities Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals by Grace Van Mil A new strategy for engaging students on…
Today’s blog is by NAEE Fellow, Tim Baker, Headteacher of Charlton Manor Primary School in Greenwich. In 2007 I turned up to the school after a meeting to be greeted with a swarm of bees which had attached itself by the school entrance. The premises manager had taped off an area around the swarm and visitors…
This post sets out links to recent (Autumn 2018) evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items. This supports the Strategic Research Network for Learning in Natural Environments and Outdoors for All to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve links between research, policy and…
Today’s blog is by NAEE Fellow Melissa Glackin from King’s College, London. ‘Does the policy-making process engage authentically with practice?’ This is one of the important questions that colleagues at King’s College London are exploring in the ESRC-funded study: Rethinking Impact, Evaluation and Accountability in Youth Work. This week I had the good fortune to attend…
The Green Schools Project has a blog and you can see the archive here. You’ll see that the latest post is about Extinction Rebellion and school climate strikes. The first UK youth school climate strike was in London in December. This was arranged in only a few days and attracted around 12 school students. Since then young people…