On January 29, 2017, the NOAA Book Club is discussing: Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction Everything Change features twelve stories from the Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest. It has a foreword by science fiction author and contest judge Kim Stanley Robinson and an interview with climate fiction…
In a recent Nature Connections blog post, Miles Richardson examines recent research into whether it’s nature knowledge or nature connections that are most likely to lead to pro-environment behaviours. This begins: “A fundamental component of environmental education, and a traditional aspect of nature engagement is environmental knowledge. Knowledge of nature is seen as being indispensable to…
In our latest blog on the government’s 25 year plan for the environment, NAEE Fellow, Dr Melissa Glackin of King’s College, asks whether the science curriculum actually encourages fieldwork – and environmental education. In Chapter 3 of the 25 Year Environmental Plan ‘Connecting people with the environment to improve health and wellbeing’ the Government claim, ‘the…
NAEE’s new review – Opportunities for Environmental Education across the Secondary Curriculum – was published yesterday. You can download it here. This complements our primary review that was published in 2016. The review focuses not only on geography, science, and design & technology, but on a wide range of other subject areas as well, including Spiritual,…
We’ve been covering the government’s 25 year plan for the environment this week with a couple of blogs by NAEE trustees Justin Dillon and Morgan Phillips. Here is a sample of other views out there: RSPB – Martin Harper – Good news for a Thursday “If, like me, you believe that politics can change things for the…
The government launched its 25 Year Environment Plan last week, and we heard the views of NAEE’s President, Prof Justin Dillon about it on Tuesday. Today, we hear from NAEE Trustee Dr Morgan Phillips. What follows is a shortened version of what appears on Morgan’s website. Last week, DEFRA launched their long-awaited environment plan: ‘A Green Future:…
Heritage was long absent from the mainstream sustainable development debate, despite its crucial importance to societies and the wide acknowledgment of its great potential to contribute to social, economic and environmental goals. Based on a strong appeal from national and local stakeholders, the 2030 Agenda adopted by the UN General Assembly integrates, for the first…
The 2018 GA conference takes place at Sheffield Hallam University from Thursday April 5th to Saturday April 7th. There will be over a hundred sessions including workshops, lectures, field visits, ‘teacher-to-teacher’ sessions, and debates. The programme is summarised here: Thursday programme at a glance Friday programme at a glance Saturday programme at a glance Full Programme The Conference…
Last week, the government launched its 25 Year Environment Plan, and we intend to cover this important event with a number of posts in the coming weeks. We begin, appropriately, with the views of NAEE’s President, Prof Justin Dillon of the University of Exeter. The long-awaited 25-year Environment Plan was launched on January 11 delivering on…
It was the enticing title to George Martin’s book: Don’t even think about it: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change that persuaded me to order the book from our library. There was just one copy in the whole of Cumbria, so it wasn’t high in the popularity charts, which is just the…
NAAEE says that it’s not too early to plan a trip to Spokane to attend the NAAEE 2018 conference. The research Research Symposium is from October 9 to 10 – the pre-Conference Field Trips and Workshops are on October 10 – and the Conference proper is from October 10 to 13. The government has published its 25 Year Plan to…
ASE’s Midlands Conference is on Saturday 3rd March [9:00 to 12:45] at Derby University in the Kirtley Building, Kedleston Rd, Derby, DE22 1GB. There will be a session on Practical approaches in Environmental Education by Lee Jowett who is Environmental Education Coordinator at Leicester City Council. ASE says: Lee will show you opportunities to use resources and activities which support…