NAEE’s latest journal is now on the members’ page of the website. Vol 122 was published in conjunction with the London Environmental Educators’ Forum [ LEEF ] with a focus on urban environmental & sustainability education. In addition to the usual features, its contents included: Urban environmental & sustainability education as a space for social connections…
Resurrection Trust is a book of “funny, dark, mad, bad, upbeat, downbeat and fantastical short stories about living sustainably”. They arose from the University of Southampton’s Green Stories writing competition. The editor, Amanda Saint, says that the stories “showcase a myriad of different ideas about how humans can live more harmoniously with nature, and each…
As we noted last week, The Economist has a new fortnightly summary of climate change issues. Its first edition focused on the annual UN climate talks now being in Madrid. These are a prelude to next year’s COP26 in Glasgow when the nearly 200 countries that signed up to the Paris agreement in 2015 are expected to commit…
Teach the Future has done an analysis of the election manifestos published so far. Although there are few surprises, it would be an interesting exercise for older students to compare TTF’s analysis with their own readings of the huge number of promises being made. ∫∫∫ . Meanwhile the European Parliament has declared a climate emergency and called…
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…
The winners of the Bayer-LEAF Education Awards were announced last week. The Primary School Partnership award went to Nonington Farms Ltd “For a farm that has built and continues to build a successful relationship with primary schools and makes a valuable and sustained contribution to school life, both on and away from the farm.” The Secondary School Partnership award went…
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…
Emily Dyer is Education Services Coordinator at the Canal & River Trust. She co-ordinates the Trust’s education programme ‘Explorers’, developing learning resources and working with schools and groups across England and Wales. In this article, first published in Volume 119 of our journal, Environmental Education, Emily explores the work that the Trust does with local schools. The Canal &…
NAEE is now, along with a growing number of others, is a formal supporter of Teach the Future. ∫∫∫ The UKSCN has a page of helpful advice for students planning action on November 29th. It says: The UK Student Climate Network draws a lot of inspiration from the ideas and campaigning of Swedish 16 year old…
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…
NAEE is collaborating with COBIS, the Council of British International Schools, on an Eco Film Award. This is a film-making competition that aims to develop COBIS students’ environmental awareness and empower them to take action. Students have been invited to produce a short film showcasing a project they have carried out to improve the environmental sustainability of their school. Through this competition,…
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:…