It’s with sadness that report that Geoffrey Hopkinson died recently, age 94. Geoff was appointed as Adviser for Environmental Education in Staffordshire in 1969 at a time when environmental education was not only emerging from its rural studies background across England, but also becoming established internationally. NAEE was created in 1971 out of the National…
The first issue of DfE’s Climate in Education Snapshot is now available. DfE will send these updates to provide information on [i] what it is currently working on to make its strategy a reality; [ii] what is coming up soon; and [iii] how we can get involved with DfE. The first includes a welcome from Rt Hon…
This is the latest in a number of reactions to the recently published NAEE Manifesto. It’s from Dr David Dixon, author of Leadership for Sustainability (saving the planet one school at a time). As ever with our blogs, what is set out here is not necessarily the view of the Association. Two things strike me…
Today’s post is the latest in a series from Richard Jurin who, before his retirement, ran the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, launching a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. This post follows up a recent one and responds to the NAEE…
The University of Reading’s climate education action plan emphasises working in partnership to tackle what clearly is the defining crisis of our generation. The university says: “Following the Climate Education Summit, our National Climate Education Action Plan has emerged. No single organisation, or indeed government department, is able to take this agenda forward alone. Informed by…
This is the second in a number of reactions to the recently published NAEE Manifesto. It’s from Dr John Foster at Lancaster University. As ever with our blogs, what is set out here is not necessarily the view of the Association. This is a very impressive manifesto into which much careful professional thought has evidently…
Today’s post is the first in a number of reactions to the NAEE Manifesto. It is by Ben Ballin who writes regularly here. As ever, the views set out are not necessarily shared by the Association. The following are some thoughts that came freely to mind following the launch of NAEE-UK’s excellent Young People’s Learning and…
DfE has translated its sustainability and Climate Change strategy into a policy paper. Here is an updated set of comments on the strategy: University of Reading Phys.Org Independent Education Today BBC Schools Week NEU Teach the Future Sec-Ed the voice for secondary education The National Governance Association The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years…
So said Kermit the Frog, as Dan Worth reminds us at the end of his recent article for tes.com The focus of the article is the DfE’s wish (in its sustainability and climate change strategy) that all schools and nurseries should have designated sustainability leads by 2025. In exploring this, Dan Worth argues that, although…
In today’s The Conversation, Elizabeth Rushton (UCL) and Lynda Dunlop (University of York) assess how far the DfE’s new sustainability and climate change strategy aligns with what teachers and young people want. They set out five things that teachers, teacher educators and young people would like to see in schools – and how the government’s…