Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin. Before his retirement, Richard led the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, where he launched a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by NAEE.…
Teach the Future has a recent blog setting out what it wants the new government to do. Written by Freddie Emms, it begins: “Yesterday, many of us around the country used our voices to speak up for issues we care about, and voted for the candidates that we feel will stand up for climate education…
In a post for the BERA blog, Stephen Scoffham wonders whether it is time to start thinking about reframing climate change education. This is how his post begins: Teaching pupils about climate change and sustainability is problematic. Simply confronting them directly with the facts can be both disturbing and unsettling but trying to conceal or…
Today’s post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David is Tynedale’s Bicycle Mayor. As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association. I often travel by a train which takes me…
Here are some new blogs from Teach the Future: why the youth vote matters priority actions for the next prime minister how the major parties fair on climate education
To save you the trouble of all that searching, click Scottish Greens to see what their election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education. The more progressive income tax structure introduced by the Scottish Greens in Scotland is raising critical funds that are now…
To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the SNP election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Defend free university tuition in Scotlan. The SNP is the only party that will protect students and defend…
To save you the trouble of all that searching, click Scottish Labour Party to see what their election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education: Page 69: We need a comprehensive review of Curriculum for Excellence, including broad general education and the senior phase.…
Teach the Future has sent an open letter to the next Prime Minister. Here is the first part. You can read the whole thing here. Dear Future Prime Minister, When you are elected, we hope you will be ready to make significant progress towards net zero: we have the technology, we have most of the funding…
To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the Reform party election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Too many children and young people are being badly let down. Discipline, disruption and violence are huge…
To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the Plaid Cymru election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Education holds the key to Wales’s future, and Plaid Cymru wants to create an education system where…
To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the Labour Party election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. How Labour will break down barriers to opportunity: Recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects 3,000…