Learning Away consortium member, Louise Edwards, who is chair of the Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres (AHOEC), will be taking a motion to National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) annual conference this week. This will urge the NAHT national executive to campaign to protect funding to enable children to have greater access to…
Thirty years ago, the New Zealand Department of Conservation [DOC] was created. It was a national declaration that the country valued its nature and wild places, and that it was committed to protecting it for future generations. A recent DOC blog marks this event, looking both forward and back. It says: To mark this anniversary, we wanted to celebrate…
Today’s Guest Blog is by Stephen Martin, Honorary Professor, University of Worcester, Visiting Professor in Learning for Sustainability, University of the West of England, and President of Change Agents UK. Changing how you look at things changes how you see them! Put another way, it is crucial that we retain and facilitate the ability to think outside the…
Here’s more 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 Strategic Research Groups for Learning in Natural…
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: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom (TEKW) from the British Isles Bushcraft skills were once more than recreation, without knowledge of plants people would once have been without food, medicine…
The Guardian reports £4.6m lottery grant to help a range of endangered species, including the ladybird spider, the shrill carder bee, the chequered skipper butterfly, the bearded false darkling beetle, the royal splinter cranefly, the prostrate perennial knawel, and interrupted brome. Now, be honest, how many of those did you know existed, let alone were endangered?…
Click here to find the latest blogs from the New Nature Network. What you’ll find will include: The Wisdom of Water: Reflections of an Outdoor Educator by Katie Vogel Seven Cities Activate Strategies to Connect Kids to Nature by Priya Cook The Real Nature Channel: Time for Kids to Tune In by Arden Bucklin-Sporer and more … .…
A team of researchers from King’s College, London, has embarked on a research project funded by Leverhulme and the British Academy to ask … Where is environmental education in secondary schools, what is it, and what should the future be? It will run from March 2017 to September 2018 and is led by Drs Melissa Glackin and…
Here’s a 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 Strategic Research Groups for…
We reported on March 16th the decision in New Zealand to grant the Whanganui river rights as a “legal person”. India has followed this up, citing the New Zealand move, to declare the Ganges and Yamuna rivers to be people as well. The Economist has a feature on both these developments, providing much more detail on the…