November 2009

A review in THE this week of the Handbook of Sustainability Literacy –  the sort of review that authors might have thought of penning themselves had they been optimistic enough about how their achievements might be received (I had one of...

To Norway to give a talk on reorienting teacher education to address sustainability at a conference of teachers and teacher educators.  A chance to think about the Unesco project that we were once part of, and to reflect on 30+...

I know that what the world really needs is "love, sweet love", whether sung by Dionne Warwick or others, but what we've finished up is the Lucerne Declaration.  As IRGEE 18.4 reports, this is actually the Lucerne Declaration on Geographical...

I recently spent a very stimulating few hours with primary school headteachers from a London Borough – talking with them about sustainable schools during a couple of days devoted to this theme.   Although there were a few Heads from the...

In a recent mailing, SEEd has said that it "is wanting to explore what it can contribute to the question about pedagogy and ESD", and it asks "some very basic questions: What can we say about pedagogy and ESD/global learning? What...

Monday saw me at a GWR seminar from Exeter over its impressive "access grid" (all rather Iain M Banks).  The topic was fairtrade and the presentation illuminated a number of issues around why schools (and universities, Bath amongst them) find...

In a recent radio programme the following exchange took place: Jane Little's Introduction: “The Government’s former Chief Scientific Advisor, Lord May, has called on religious leaders to play a bigger role in helping to tackle climate change. The Peer said...