June 19th is Empty Classroom Day. Where will you be? Will you be joining schools and organisations across the UK to celebrate outdoor learning. Will you spend a lesson outside, or do more? You can sign up your school, here, to be part of it and to hear news in the run up to the day.
LEEF is a network for London’s most innovative and passionate urban Environmental Educators. You can catch up with their latest activities here. Contact Anna Portch [aportch@wildlondon.org.uk ] if you want to keep in touch with what they do, including information about their four new Fellows: Beth Barbara, Lucy Gijsen, Melissa Rose, and Melissa Glackin.
This Wednesday, June 10th, the University of Gloucestershire is hosting the 2015 Learning for Sustainable Futures event which is focusing on student experience. It features new projects in Accountancy, Fine Art, Business, Fashion, Sports Placements and Libraries, as well as an interactive panel discussion about how to engage students in sustainability through social enterprise, placements and…
A free (massive) online course (MOOC) is being launched by UWE Bristol offering community groups and individuals the chance to learn what makes a ‘green city’. This new initiative is the first of its type to be launched linked to a European Green Capital City. As part of Big Green Week, Simon Bates, the course developer…
Monday’s BBC Panorama programma will address the issue of GM technology and food. The theme is: A new generation of GM foods is winning over governments and former critics of the technology, and scientists say the crops could help feed people in the developing world. So are those who oppose GM doing more harm than good? And…
UNESCO has released two education-focused reports: Global Citizenship Education: Preparing Learners for the Challenges of the 21st Century This is an overview of the delivery of yet another adjectival education: GCE – Global Citizenship Education. The report makes recommendations on how GCE can become a more integral part of teaching and learning. It focuses on support for teacher education, better…
Will you be at the Growing Up Global and Green conference on September 18th? If so, do come to the NAEE stand and say hello. We’ll tell you about the benefits of membership, and be very happy to sign you up while you’re there.
Today’s Guardian reports that global warming has not undergone a ‘pause’ or ‘hiatus’. A new study looked anew at the temperature records of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in the light of changing methods of measuring the global surface temperature over the past century. Adjustments to the data were slight, but removed a flattening of the graph this century…
George Monbiot is a great fan of rewilding, and writes about it frequently. He would like to see parts of Britain rewilded, especially its uplands. Essentially, this means humans getting out of the way, although opinion varies on the extent a rewilding process would need to be managed (by humans). Last week’s Spectator carried an…
National Sustainable School’s Conference, Bristol, 2nd July The University of Bristol, in partnership with the Sustainable Schools Alliance and SEEd, will host this year’s National Sustainable Schools Conference which will also be available online. Cost: £75. To book click here. Building Capacities of Educators for a Just and Sustainable World Conference, Liverpool, 9th July This TEESNet event will address a priority action area…
Soils have a vital role, especially as they host a quarter of our planet’s species. As the website states: “The multiple roles of soils often go unnoticed. Soils don’t have a voice, and few people speak out for them. They are our silent ally in food production.”
Led by Professor David Lambert, former Geographical Association Chief Executive, the key objective of the geo capabilities project is to create teacher training materials to develop teachers as curriculum leaders through a ‘capabilities’ approach’. The project embraces diversity in culture and language and in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards.