Teach the Future’s Asks

Teach the Future has a recent blog setting out what it wants the new government to do. Written by Freddie Emms, it begins: “Yesterday, many of us around the country used our voices to speak up for issues we care about, and voted for the candidates that we feel will stand up for climate education…

July 8th 2024

The Case for Global Learning – DERC, along with over 30 educational organisations from across the UK, has written an advocacy paper calledThe Case for Global Learning.  This is intended as a call to arms, setting out the facts and urging wide support for the schooling community to address the issues facing our planet in a concerted…

Reframing Climate Education

In a post for the BERA blog, Stephen Scoffham wonders whether it is time to start thinking about reframing climate change education. This is how his post begins: Teaching pupils about climate change and sustainability is problematic. Simply confronting them directly with the facts can be both disturbing and unsettling but trying to conceal or…

July 1st 2024

Election Update – NAEE has looked at what, if anything, the party manifestoes have to say about education and environmental education.  You’ll find them here: Lib Dems – Labour – Conservative – Green – Reform UK – SNP – Scottish Labour – Scottish Greens and Plaid Cymru. Teach the Future has analysed some of the party manifestoes to see where they stand on climate education and the need to rebuild and retrofit schools.  You…

Sustainability Sidelined

Today’s post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David is Tynedale’s Bicycle Mayor. As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association.  I often travel by a train which takes me…

PLANT-LIFE, a Walk with Nature

PLANT-LIFE, a Walk with Nature is a new book by Edward Bent and self-published with www.nartura.net. Pages: 240 ISBN: 979-12-210-0957-6 Price: £21.00 online. Is there anyone in the world who does not have some kind of interaction with the plant kingdom? Consider the food we eat, the landscapes we enjoy, the flowers we value for their…

June 24th 2024

The Election – NAEE has looked at what the party manifestoes have to say about education and environmental education.  You’ll find them here: Lib Dems – Labour – Conservative – Green – Reform UK – SNP – Scottish Labour – Plaid Cymru – Scottish Greens. Teach the Future has analysed some of the party manifestoes to see where they stand on climate education and the need to rebuild and retrofit schools.  You can visit…

The SNP: what the manifesto says

To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the SNP election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Defend free university tuition in Scotlan. The SNP is the only party that will protect students and defend…

Dear Future Prime Minister

Teach the Future has sent an open letter to the next Prime Minister. Here is the first part. You can read the whole thing here. Dear Future Prime Minister,  When you are elected, we hope you will be ready to make significant progress towards net zero: we have the technology, we have most of the funding…