Ria Dunkley, Lecturer in Geography, Environment and Sustainability, at the University of Glasgow, writes in The Conversation about the importance of bringing climate change into the curriculum: It’s too late to protect them from it, so how do teachers tell children about climate change without scaring them? The good news is that young people are already…
So said Zamzam Ibrahim, the NUS and SOS_UK President in her address to the recent NUS sustainability summit. More fully, she said: “Our leaders are making bad decisions because they have been badly educated.” This is how her talk begins: “SOS-UK is NUS’s brand new sustainability charity, created so we can go further and faster with our sustainability…
Today’s post is by Arjen Wals, the well-known international environmental educator and researcher who writes: “Last month I attended the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Hamburg. Around 3000 participants from over 60 countries attended the conference. Since the overall theme was ‘Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research…
Today we feature a blog from St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Norwich. In this, the year 5 students recount their recent visit to How Hill which is an environmental study centre in the Norfolk Broads. Here are a few of the children’s many comments about what they did and how much they enjoyed it:…
Today’s blog is by Mick Haining. This post is one he recently contributed to Extinction Rebellion. As with all our guest blogs, the view’s expressed are the author’s. As Naomi Klein puts it, “this changes everything”. This particular climate change is a product of human ways of living and, if it is to be slowed…
On July 3rd The Green Schools Project ran a schools climate conference for students from Year 5 to 12 at UCL, bringing together almost 200 students from 13 schools. In this blog, Green Schools Director, Henry Greenwood reflects on the conference and what it achieved. As with all NAEE blogs, the views expressed are the writer’s. We didn’t…
This (longer than usual) post is by Alan Reid (Monash University), the editor of Environmental Education Research. Alan’s writing in a personal capacity about the Global Environmental Education Partnership which is meeting at the end of this week at the NAAEE conference in Lexington KY. 1 What do people care about in environmental education? I…
Graham Frost is headteacher of the Robert Ferguson primary school in Carlisle and he contributed a blog here earlier in the year following his school’s successful organising of a climate summit. Late last month he contributed to the #iwill conference which featured the launch of Transform Our World – a digital repository of teaching resources for schools…
Here’s a selection of research and other reports related to learning and the environment collated by Natural England. A coordinated research agenda for nature-based learning Jordan & Chawla – Frontiers in Psychology Nature-based learning as an avenue for enhancing children’s educational and developmental outcomes is receiving wide-spread attention. After an extensive review of the literature…
Thanks to everyone who has commented on Bill Scott’s post last Tuesday about a climate change curriculum. Although all the comments can be found alongside the post on the website, we’ve pulled out a few highlights: “The big missing piece, for me — the elephant not invited into the room — is the question of…