Click here to read blogs from the Children and Nature Network [CNN]. These include Stephen Kellert’s REFLECTIONS ON CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCE OF NATURE: Honoring a visionary through his own words and Susan Bales’ GETTING THE URBAN INTO NATURE: New Research and New Thinking
This is a link to the NAAEE website, our sibling organisation in North America (covering the USA, Mexico and Canada). It has strong links with the US EPA: the Environmental Protection Agency. Some of these connections are financial; others are less tangible, but just as significant. It’s a relationship that we in the UK have had…
Here’s PART 3 of the latest round up of recent and relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items issued by the partnership of Natural England, The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom and Historic England on behalf of and for the Strategic Research Groups. This supports the…
In May, NAEE will have a vacancy for a trustee on its governing board. This is the trustee person spec: Essential An NAEE Trustee will be … a professionally active, experienced UK-based practitioner and / or researcher in environmental education or a closely-related field well known and respected, and someone whose…
We missed the announcement of the government’s new plan for National Parks. Its aim is to “kickstart a programme of activity to safeguard the future of these iconic landscapes”. Every schoolchild in England will have the chance to visit our inspiring National Parks at each stage of their education under plans announced today by Environment…
This is the final part of a late 2016 round up from Natural England of research on the benefits to be had from being in the natural environment … Diversity and Inclusion at Heritage Organizations A Davis, A Ifill, LAW Tamai – Forum Journal, 2016 This interview explores diversity and inclusion as organizational priorities at heritage organizations. Interviewees…
This is the second part of a late 2016 round up from Natural England of research on the benefits to be had from being in the natural environment … Science learning in the outdoors to support primary–secondary transition K Kerr – 2016 This article builds on and contributes to work in the area of science learning in the…
This is the first part of a late 2016 round up from Natural England of research on the benefits to be had from being in the natural environment … 30 Minutes in Nature a Day Can Increase Mood, Well-Being, Meaning in Life and Mindfulness: Effects of a Pilot Programme GA Hamann, I Ivtzan – Social Inquiry into…
1. These are links c/o Natural England of recent research about the natural environment and health. Links between natural environments and physical activity: evidence briefing EIN020 – Links between natural environments and physiological health: evidence briefing EIN021 – Links between natural environments and obesity: evidence briefing 2. These are links to Public Health England resources Active…
Today’s featured blog is Gardenercorner.com which you will find here. Recent posts include: Assessing Your Garden Soil: Providing an Optimum Chance for Good Plant Growth December 30, 2016 Backyard Herbs that Stretch Your Budget, Look Great, and Smell Wonderful December 19, 2016 A Super Guide for Beginning Gardeners: How to love getting your hands dirty,…
Today’s blog is a link to Jeff Ollerton’s Biodiversity Blog which does what it says. Jeff’s post is a seasonal one about holly and mistletoe. It begins: “Each year I’ve always added at least one Christmas-themed biodiversity post to the blog, for example: Thank the insects for Christmas, A Christmas vignette, and Six Kingdoms for Christmas. That’s partly because I really like…
On Christmas Day, the Guardian published a letter with the heading: Screen-based lifestyle harms children’s health It came from a long list of the respectable and the renown. You will be impressed by the list of authors. It began: “A decade ago our first multiple-signatory “toxic childhood” press letter described how children’s health and wellbeing…