Today’s blog is by NAEE Fellow Melissa Glackin from King’s College, London. ‘Does the policy-making process engage authentically with practice?’ This is one of the important questions that colleagues at King’s College London are exploring in the ESRC-funded study: Rethinking Impact, Evaluation and Accountability in Youth Work. This week I had the good fortune to attend…
The latest NAEE journal is being mailed out to members this month. It’s a special feature on how the sustainable development goals are being explored in schools and NGOs. We would have liked to have used the new potato starch-based polymer as the cover to send them out but the 75,000 minimum posting was a little above our usual…
The Green Schools Project has a blog and you can see the archive here. You’ll see that the latest post is about Extinction Rebellion and school climate strikes. The first UK youth school climate strike was in London in December. This was arranged in only a few days and attracted around 12 school students. Since then young people…
The Freshwater Habitats Trust says it wants to hear from us about the frog and toad spawn that we spot in garden, community and country ponds. The details of this year’s spawn survey are here and the survey runs until the end of May. Meanwhile, you can take a look at the 2018 records on the interactive map created by Merseyside Biobank. . BBC Radio…
I use these ‘Spot 50’ books all the time when working outside with children (other titles include wildflowers, trees and insects). They are easy to navigate as a simple field guide, and contain just the right level and amount of information about each species. Each species has its own page, with a large labelled picture…
What follows is an account by Juliette Green of the presentations NAEE made at the recent ASE conference. This will be published in the next NAEE journal (Vol 120) which has a focus on the sustainable development goals. On Thursday 10thJanuary 2019, NAEE volunteers (Juliette Green, Nina Hatch and Bill Scott) attended the Association for…
The Environmental News Network reports that global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018. ENN says that a Columbia Engineering study, published in Nature, confirms the urgency to tackle climate change. It says: While it’s known that extreme weather events can affect the year-to-year variability in carbon uptake, and some researchers have suggested that there may be longer-term effects,…
Emily Vera and Kate Dawson write about sowing the seeds of mindfulness. It was a warm, spring day with a glimpse of sunshine streaming through the trees when we stopped along the pathway to look at the dandelions. Ludwig, one of our preschoolers, says “ I want to pick one. They are beautiful.” Brianna, turns to…
Over 50 young people from around the UK have today been announced as environment ambassadors as part of the run up to the government’s 2019 Year of Green Action [YoGA] – a year-long drive to see more people from all backgrounds involved in projects to improve the natural world. The #iwill4nature initiative, part of the #iwill campaign which aims…
The UK Government has launched YoGA – its Year of Green Action setting out to galvanise activity by everyone. YoGA is about connecting people all around the country with nature, and showing how we can all take positive action to improve our environment. It’s a year-long drive to help everyone get involved in projects that support nature…
This post sets out links to recent (late Autumn 2018) evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items. This supports the Strategic Research Network for Learning in Natural Environments and Outdoors for All to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve links between research, policy…
NAEE was at the Association for Science Education annual conference in Birmingham running two workshops on environmental education through STEM and taking part in a Teachmeet. One of the most valuable parts of the day was considering with interested and informed colleagues how to bring the 17 sustainable development goals, environmental education and STEM subjects together. Very stimulating; we’ll be…