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…
This is a recent round up by Natural England 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…
Today’s post is by Mark Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Science Education (and Deputy Course Director for BA Primary Education with QTS) at Birmingham City University. The text was originally published in the University’s Education Journal Magazine (Winter 2021), and is a ‘think-piece’ is in response to the draft strategy on sustainability and climate change presented by…
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…
Dr Elsa Lee reviews What the Oak Tree Sees by AK Scott & RM Brink This beautiful, whimsical and nostalgic picture book answers a question my children and I often ask of an oak tree in the village that we call home. This tree has been a place of refuge for us as a family since we arrived…
Florence Gichoya African Conservation Centre After decades of conservation research in various landscapes in Kenya, a small group of Kenyan nationals founded the African Conservation Centre (ACC) in 1995. ACC’s work is mainly focused in four landscape areas in Kenya: Amboseli, Maasai Mara, Laikipia and the South Rift. These areas have the richest vertebrate diversity…
Throughout the two weeks of COP26, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland published a range of guest blogs on the importance of centring nature in the climate discussion, the vital significance of loss and damage funding, and the radical change that is needed for transport as we confront the climate crisis. You can read all their blogs on the news section of the…
Today’s post is by Tessa Willy, who is Deputy Programme Lead for the Primary PGCE at the Institute of Education University College London. In this Tessa looks at the potential contained within the DfE’s Sustainability and Climate Change strategy and at some of the problems associated with it. As ever with NAEE blogs, the views…
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…
Sue Shanks reviews Darwin Comes to Town: How the urban jungle drives evolution by Menno Schilthuizen Darwin comes to Town is a thoroughly researched book delving into the many ways that plants and animals are exploiting the habitats which are available in our urban landscapes and through these interaction are themselves undergoing evolutionary adaptations in a relatively…
Molly Toal, Lancashire Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (otherwise known as LWT) have been running their Forest School Project in Manchester since 2015 and in Liverpool since 2017. Project officers work with urban schools for a year, delivering free Forest School sessions, offering accredited Level 3 Forest School Leadership training…
Henricus Peters reviews Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek Gow The author image on the back flap reminds me of (sometimes controversial) television botanist Dr David Bellamy, a past president of our NAEE who passed away in 2019. A reasonably burly figure with a bushy white beard set on…