Our President, Bill Scott, has been wondering why the global manager of Eco-schools – FEE – isn’t doing more to ensure that student learning is a more prominent focus of the Eco-schools movement. You can read the blog post – Questions for FEE – here. It begins … “I take the view that FEE needs to…
If you click here, you can see what Groundwork West Midlands has been up to recently. Green Space Transformation caught our eye, along with its new report: Growing and Green Space. This confirms that ‘practical involvement in growing and green space activities’ are a powerful tool to help vulnerable people address personal and social issues. What puzzles…
Today’s guest blog is by Geoffrey Guy who lectures at Reaseheath College. Geoff is the Director of Education for Bushcraft Education Ltd, and the founder of the Bushcraft Education blog. The Dartington Conference of 1975 aimed to give a definition of Outdoor Education [OE] that could be accepted by the industry and potentially justify its use in schools…
NAEE has published its latest e-journal, Environmental Education Vol 110, for its members. Contents include a number of regular features such as the President’s Column, reports from NAEE-sponsored field work by schools, book reviews and webwatch. Feature articles this time include: Hardwick Dene interpreted Steve Ashton Connecting young people to wetlands Rachel Carless Engaging…
France has launched a push for publicity in advance of December’s climate talks at the UN Climate Change Conference [COP21] that is taking place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. France has launched a diplomatic drive to push the international community towards reaching a global climate deal, and the country’s ambassadors in embassies and consulates across the…
The four winners of the 2015 Ashden Sustainable School Awards are: Thornhill Primary School, Cardiff – young eco warriors make big energy savings North Warwickshire & Hinckley College, Nuneaton – joined up approach to carbon management equals win-win Home Farm Primary School, Colchester – Essex Primary School on its very best behaviour Marton Primary School, Lincolnshire – pupils’ efforts to reduce carbon footprint of school brings…
We certainly haven’t, but the possibility of doing so seems to be on the increase, if a recent report in the Independent is anything to go by. And not just in Scotland, where these charismatic animals have survived. The Vincent Wildlife Trust is a charity which focuses on our rare mammals and collates any reports of pine martens…
Here’s Bill Scott’s latest comment from the NAAEE conference in San Diego. I went to a session on whether climate change was changing the face of EE. Marianne Krasny, from Cornell University, led the session that used data from work done following Hurricane Sandy’s devastation of New Jersey and New York, and there were contributions from the floor about…
As we noted earlier in the week, our President, Bill Scott, is attending the NAAEE conference in San Diego. Here’s a comment from him on experiencing the event … The first thing to note is that there are around 1200 people here representing all aspects of environmental education in North America: teachers, NGO staff, university academics,…
NAEE President, Bill Scott, has been at the North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] conference, and will be commenting on this on this blog. Whilst there, he met NAAEE President, Pepe Marcos-Iga, to compare notes on their two organisations, and on the two presidential roles. The picture shows Pepe and Bill at an event during the conference where the…
The Countryside Classroom was launched last week. We tried out the Places to Visit page, which says: “Countryside Classroom helps you to arrange high-quality class visits that enhance learning about food, farming and the natural environment. You can use the filters on the left of this page to help you find the perfect venue in…
Did you read recently that the Oxford University Press has been steadily removing (over the last few years) nature-related words from its Junior Dictionary? Examples include: acorn blackberry buttercup fern heather minnow moss sycamore willow An OUP spokesperson said the dictionaries are “designed to reflect language as it is used,…