November 2018

  • The ways of the world

    1 – Lord King, the retired Bank of England governor has taught at New York University for the past few years.  I read that he was recently required to complete a questionnaire by the university's identity/diversity bureaucracy/polizei.  One item asked about...

  • CEE in 1993

    In 1993, the UK's Council for Environmental Education (CEE) celebrated its 25th birthday, and its annual report (which I have in front of me) had the message "Building on 25 years' experience".  Happy days. CEE would have been 50 years old...

  • How can we take environmental education seriously?

    This is a follow-up to my post last week about the King's research and the seeming impossibility of expecting government to take environmental education seriously. If we cannot trust government to do the decent thing, what can we do?  Trust...

  • Who cares about planetary biodiversity?

    What follows is a guest posting from Professor Stephen Martin Yet another dire warning about the alarming loss of planetary biodiversity (Guardian 3 November: Two years to make a deal for nature or we face extinction).  Once again this highlights...

  • Who really thinks that environmental education will save us?

    A wise academic once said to me that you're quids in if you've got some data; that is, if you've done some proper research.  The problem with being retired from research is that you don't have data any more and...

  • When was there a golden age of environmental education?

    Taking this idea seriously for a minute, and only for the UK, a number of possibilities suggest themselves, and I am ignoring all pre-1960 initiatives that many, including Keith Wheeler in 1975 in Insights into Environmental Education, wrote about ... – the...

  • A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy

    Jem Bendell's paper: Deep Adaptation (A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy) is challenging stuff.  This is the Abstract: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an...

  • Social Immobility

    The following is an extract from Jenni Russell's Times column of October 25th. "This summer the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a global survey of inequality, detailing how hard it is for individuals to escape their backgrounds....

  • Hidden tribes

    Niall Fergusson wrote in The Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago about Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarised Landscape, saying that it offers a new political typology that divides Americans into seven political categories: 1 Progressive activists: younger, highly engaged, secular,...

  • Connecting Classrooms for Environmental (and other) Learning

    Last week's News Round-up from NAEE had a feature on the new Connecting Classrooms for Global Learning programme which has now been launched.  The details are here and their website says: “The new Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme supports schools internationally to...