DfE Consults – The Department for Education has launched a survey to gather feedback on its Sustainability and Climate Change draft strategy. This will run until 20th February. The survey ask us which actions set out in the strategy are the most important to us and seeks our our opinions of the overall approach. This is the link. . Union Letter – At the…
Who Drew the Sky? – Professor Andy Stables died last week. He contributed much to UK environmental education research in the early 2000s, bringing expertise in literature and philosophy. He only wrote one article for our journal. This restated the case for a liberal education using the idea of literacy, and set out 7 pragmatic principles associated with this. It…
Cleaner and Greener – The government has published the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment. The report notes the unprecedented challenge of ensuring the UK is resilient to climate change and sets out the work underway to meet that challenge. Ahead of detailed plans being produced by the DfE, the Minister for the School System, Baroness Barran said: “Building a…
Winter Greens – The Winter edition of Green Teacher has now been published. As usual, there are two freely-available articles: Camera Trapping by Cate Rigoulot: A new lens on inquiry, and Project Management in EE by John Negru Educating the environmental leaders of tomorrow about project management today. . Teacher Views – The latest edition of the journal, Educational Education Research – has an article by NAEE President, Prof Justin Dillon, and colleagues…
Cutting Edge – This year’s Edge Foundation’s Annual Lecture focused on the need to integrate the environment into the education system. The speakers were Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project, George Lamb founder of GROW, a new environmental education programme that offers London-based pupils the chance to farm and learn mindfulness training, and Shaun McInerney, the Senior Project Coordinator of Ashoka Changemaker Education. It…
Goodbye 2021 – You can see SOS-UK’s review of the year on YouTube. They say: “From ethical finance to sustainable food, from fuel poverty to ESD, from wellbeing to youth-led campaigns and more, we’ve reached hundreds of thousands of people. We’re looking forward to continuing our work towards environmental justice through education in 2022.” . Partnerships Policy – SOS-UK believes in supporting students and society to…
A Curriculum for Wales – We mentioned Llanfhidian school lasy week as it’s a pilot school for the Curriculum for Wales initiative. You can see videos about the new curriculum here and here. And this is a link to an OECD webinar focused on the new curriculum. . University Degrees – The 2021 People & Planet University league table is now on-line, and you can see ‘successes’ and…
Leadership from our President – Click here to read what NAEE’s President, Prof Justin Dillon, has to say about the DfE’s draft climate education strategy. This has been developed from an input he gave at NAEE’s AGM in November in response to the question: after 50 years of environmental education, what now? His response critiques the strategy and suggests ways in…
Climate Education – Following the DfE’s publication of its draft sustainability and climate change strategy for the education and children’s service systems, it is seeking further engagement and feedback before final publication in April 2022. DfE has also produced a video overview of its longer-term strategy plans and longer-term vision. This engagement will be through a User Group, a Youth Panel, and 5 Working…
10 Minutes – Labour MP Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East) introduced a ten-minute rule bill into the Commons last Tuesday to require climate change and sustainability to become key content across the school curriculum, integrated into every subject. The bill is the culmination of her work with Teach the Future on climate education and the decarbonisation of the…