Environmental Education Research Bulletin 11 has been published. This synthesizes and summarizes research from journals on issues pertaining to environmental educators. The following caught our eye: Scientific Citizenship: Understanding student knowledge, motivations, and beliefs Vesterinen, V. – M., Tolppanen, S., & Aksela, M.. (2016). Toward citizenship science education: what students do to make the world a…
NUS has published the 8th year of its Sustainability Skills research, which includes perspectives on sustainability in education from students studying in the UK in both higher and further education. As before, demand for action remains high with around of students 80% saying they want to see action from their institutions. The proportion of students who say…
NAAEE says “Imagine if we treated educators and scientists like the superstars that they are. Imagine if everyone believed that they had the power to effect change, even in the smallest of ways”. To facilitate this, they launched a new podcast about climate resiliency and education on September 12th. You can listen to the promo here. With support from National Geographic,…
The Green Schools Project [GSP] was set up to enable young people to get involved with environmental projects. The idea is that schools should be setting a good example, educating students about how to live in a way that minimises negative impacts on the environment. GSP says that, in reality, this is often not the case…
Henricus Peters writes: I was fortunate, back in the late 1990s, to visit the East African savannah and witness some of the most amazing wildlife there. With wildlife comes life and death – and with the life comes ‘poo’… but, now that I come to think of it, I was not ‘wading through the brown…
As we noted last week, although the ENSI secretariat has now closed, its website archive is still available. Syd Smith, former ENSI representative from Australia writes that a considerable legacy is left in place … What made ENSI unique over its 32 years of operation was its “emphasis on the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development across the…
So says the Worldwatch Institute. Along with thousands of others, no doubt, NAEE received the following message (and request) from the Institute: Hello, The world has a crisis of monumental proportions: the modern societies that we love so much are overtaxing the finite resources of our planet at a level that cannot be sustained through this century. While…
Think Global announced the winner of the 2018 Global Educator of the Year Award – Samantha Olubodun who is a primary school teacher and a Specialist Leader in education, at Meadow County Primary School, Cheshire. She works within her school and County to help pupils and teachers to better understand the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s),…
Here are links to a couple of recent Children and Nature Network blogs WRITING FROM A TREE: On the Inspiration of Nature Virginia Bee Ward is a 13-year-old poet and author who lives on a small farm in Western North Carolina. Her mother, Carolyn Ward, is CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. Her post…
Rebecca Kitchen Secondary Curriculum Leader, Geographical Association, writes about the Geography Quality Mark: making an impact on teaching and learning. As Head of Geography at Aylesbury High School, I found this incredibly powerful: my geography department improvement plan was informed by the Quality Mark, and vice versa. It also enabled the whole department to be involved…
NAAEE has announce the 2018 EE 30 Under 30 awardees who work across five continents and “are champions of energy, water, climate resilience, the Arctic, environmental health issues, and more. Through a wide variety of approaches including journalism, music, and gardening, they are working to create change in their communities and on the global stage.”…
Here are some of the papers being presented at the September TEESNet conference. We notice that a focus on the SDGs is outweighing that on ESD which is to be expected and a welcome sign. A focus on GC/GL persists, however, with little discernible interest in EE even though the Goals do require a focus on…