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:…
Last week we mentioned the Climate Change Teacher training Academy which is delivered by Harwood Education and UNITAR. Its mission is to ensure that there will be a climate change teacher, in every school throughout the world, starting with the UK. It says: “As a Climate Change Accredited Teacher in your school you gain access to world-class learning…
Today’s blog is by Mick Haining. This post is one he recently contributed to Extinction Rebellion. As with all our guest blogs, the view’s expressed are the author’s. As Naomi Klein puts it, “this changes everything”. This particular climate change is a product of human ways of living and, if it is to be slowed…
Click here to listen to recent a Women’s Hour podcast on how to talk to young people about climate change. At the heart of this is a contribution from Fiona Cowan, the headteacher of Bolsover Infants school who has completed the UN’s EduCCate Global the Climate Change teacher training programme which we featured in August. The podcast is 11…
On July 3rd The Green Schools Project ran a schools climate conference for students from Year 5 to 12 at UCL, bringing together almost 200 students from 13 schools. In this blog, Green Schools Director, Henry Greenwood reflects on the conference and what it achieved. As with all NAEE blogs, the views expressed are the writer’s. We didn’t…