May 17th 2021

Talking About Education – A new paper for Earth Day from the USA says that climate policymakers cannot afford to overlook the transformational power of schools (K-12), saying: “Every World Leader Should Be Talking About Education”. When they say that “It is vital that education and climate leaders alike recognize that all pathways to addressing…

Alex White

Alex is a 17-year old photographer and blogger who is passionate about British wildlife, especially showing people how easy it is to find wildlife without having to travel too far away from your own home. He has been blogging about his local area since 2013, and you can read his older posts here. Here are…

Teaching in England: Big changes – bigger questions

Today’s blog is by Paul Vare of the University of Gloucestershire where he has responsibility for research development in the School of  Education and Humanities. He writes here about teacher education.  As ever, with our blogs, Paul’s views are not necessarily shared by NAEE. Reading Gavin Williamson’s recent speech, in which he reiterated the Government’s ambition for schools to achieve 100%…

May 10th 2021

The most important text – Last week, Greta Thunberg wrote this on Twitter: “This is one of the most important and informative texts I have ever read on the climate- and ecological crises. It’s quite long, but worth every second of reading. Please republish and share wherever possible.” The text in question was an article…

May 3rd 2021

DfE has a Vision – In a speech last week to the Annual Conference of the Confederation of School Trusts, Gavin Williamson said that he wanted “to share an ambitious vision for our country’s schools”. You can read it here. To save you too much by way of anticipatory excitement and associated palpitations, we can…

Environmental Justice

As a follow-up to Rebecca Newman’s post earlier this week, this is an edited and updated version of the chapter on environmental justice that was written by Bill Scott and Paul Vare in their 2018 book: The World we’ll Leave behind: grasping the sustainability challenge. As ever with our blogs the views expressed here do…

April 26th 2021

Light a Fire in Children’s Hearts – Japan’s Ministry of the Environment has made a series of videos of talks with prominent Japanese environmental educators. The first season will have 10 stories ranging from young local activist sisters to a University professor with over 50 years experience. The videos are in Japanese with English sub-titles.…

Earth Day

To mark Earth Day 2021, we are copying a post from the personal blog of Bill Scott, our Chair of Trustees. This looks back to the early 1970s when Philip Larkin was commissioned to write a prologue to a UK government report, How Do You Want To Live?  (HMSO, 1972).  As ever with our blogs, the views expressed…

April 19th 2021

There is a Tide ~ The latest edition of Elephant Times from Tide~ global learning focuses on climate change. Contributors include: Katie Riley – describing her climate strike experience; Hannah Boyden – exploring a learning journey responding to the SDGs; and Margaret Barnfield – reflecting on a primary science project ‘Why on Earth?’        . Wildlife Crime…