Environmental education journal features

Allyson Gantt Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks Imagine a programme that gives South Florida’s elementary students the opportunity to study native fish in the clear waters of an Everglades’ cypress dome, a programme that taught them how to collect scientific data, how to manage South Florida’s water, and how [...]

You can read the latest research bulletin from the North American Association for Environmental Education [NAAEE] here. It covers the period from January to June 2015 and offers digests of research under these headings: behaviour / evaluation / teaching methods / sense of place / professional development.  ChangeScale has worked with NAAEE and [...]

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Justin Dillon has agreed to be NAEE's next President.  Justin is Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Bristol and is an internationally-respected academic whose work covers science education and teacher education as well as environmental education.  Until 2014, [...]

Alex White, a Year 8 pupil and wildlife blogger asks who sparks the interest in nature and the environment in my generation?  Is it teachers, parents, television, social media or friends? In my case the passion was sparked by a number of sources merging together around my primary school years. This [...]

Justin Dillon discusses PGCE science teacher education at Bristol University. Introduction How do you prepare teachers to teach about climate change? It’s not just about subject knowledge, as some of our political leaders seem to think, although if you don’t know the difference between weather and climate your students might not [...]

Zach Haynes, Wildlife blogger, writes about what he does. Living around the Yorkshire Moors and Dales makes me a very lucky person.  I think it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth, which is why I spend so much time there!  There are so many opportunities to learn about [...]

Ben Balin writes about the Young People on the Global Stage Project. The great educational thinker Jerome Bruner once famously asserted that “education is not an island, but part of the continent of culture.” If so, then there seems to be a bit of a muddle in the map-making department about [...]

Here's Johan Rockström (Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre) writing at the start of WWF's Living Planet Report 2016. A RESILIENT EARTH FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS It is rare that a scientific idea fundamentally alters our worldview. Copernicus’s realization that the Earth orbits the sun is one such example. Darwin’s [...]

Matt Roper, CEO of GreenBuying, writes about his company's work with schools. There is a growing awareness within the education sector of the need and potential to ’buy green’ and there muse or viagra are plenty of examples of committed individuals taking major steps to become more sustainable in their [...]

A Reel-y Authentic Food Truck is one of two articles published by Green Teacher in its Summer 2016 edition that is freely available to read.  We are highlighting it here to draw your attention both to the article, and to Green Teacher itself, as this is a journal that NAEE finds to be consistently informative [...]