Professor William Scott reviews Rewild Yourself: 23 spellbinding ways to make nature more visible by Simon Barnes, illustrated by Lee Wright. There is a lot to like about this book, and if everyone did even half of what Simon Barnes recommends, their lives would be more fulfilled, and the rest of us would benefit as well. As is…
Today’s post is about the work of the CCC-Catapult project: Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to Tackle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation which set out to examine how young people perceive and experience climate issues. It is published here with the permission of the authors. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed…
Tracking Changes Report – Teach the Future’s Tracked Changes Curriculum Review is now published and our recent blog posts have covered a number of issues about this important development. We’ll be following them up over the coming weeks. . Education for All – The UN has a new plan for global education which ex-PM Gordon Brown says we must support. The UN says that the recent Transforming…
As we noted the other day, Teach the Future has now launched its Curriculum for a Changed Climate: track changes review of the National Curriculum for England. This reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the National Curriculum, covering subjects ranging from History to Art and Design. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the…
Last Friday, Teach the Future launched its Tracked Changes Curriculum Review. This ‘first-of-its-kind’ report reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the English National Curriculum, covering subjects ranging from History to Art and Design. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the report suggests where and how the national curriculum can be amended to include sustainability and respond…
Tracking Changes – Last Friday, Teach the Future launched its Tracked Changes Curriculum Review. This ‘first-of-its-kind’ report reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the English National Curriculum, covering subjects ranging from History to Art and Design. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the report suggests where and how the national curriculum can be amended to include sustainability and respond…
Today’s post is by Geoff Chapman who trained as a botanist, and worked at the University of the West Indies studying tropical plants. and at the University of London’s Wye College. He has published numerous books, for example: Reproductive Versatility in the Grasses, Grass Evolution and Domestication, and The Plant Life of China: Its Diversity and Distribution. During lockdown, with…
The End of the Elizabethan Era – To mark the death of the Queen and the end of the second Elizabethan Era we have a published a list of 50 significant events with an environmental or environmental education focus. This looks at the changes that have occurred over her reign and at some of the significant events that have taken…
With the death of the Queen, the second Elizabethan era comes to a close. Along with the very many tributes that have already been paid to her there have been several that have looked back to the early 1950s when her reign began, in order to chart how things have changed both in the UK and…
Here’s a further update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration…
The following is a letter sent to the two Conservative Party leadership candidates at the end of August from Unchained UK. Unchained was incubated by The Ecology Trust, a grant-making charity established in 2003. It seeks to tackle the root causes of environmental and societal problems that makes the case for “common-sense protections which help keep…
ESD for 2030 – Based on the lessons learned from the previous Global Action Programme (GAP), UNESCO has developed the ESD for 2030 framework and Roadmap. This is a global framework for the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development for the period 2020-2030. To support this global framework, UNESCO, with the support of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust (JFIT), is launching a new…