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The origins of education for sustainable development, education for sustainability, etc lie in environmental education and development education.  Over time, these have brought together a wide variety of educational approaches which examine how living things relate to each other and depend on...

The HEA's 2012/13 annual report, comments on the Academy's sustainability work under a number of headings.  For the record, here are the references to sustainability, sustainable development, and ESD.  There are quite a few: Change (p. 36) We offer a...

The UK is No. 2 in Europe for Education.  Well, so says Pearson – and they should know as they seem increasingly to be running it.  The BBC reports their latest Economist Intelligence Unit world survey and says: These rankings are based...

I spent a stimulating few hours earlier this week with two visiting researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies.  They came to the UK to look at policies and practices around environmental education of all things.  How refreshing. Bath was their...

The UN University has issued a report on resilience in socio-ecological production landscape indicators (SEPLs) that were developed between Bioversity International and the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). The report begins by defining the terminology of SEPLs, resilience, and the...

The news that the OECD’s PISA education league tables will include a measure on global competences in 2018 must come as a relief to those responsible for school education across Wales, as – of course – it will mean that...

As I have noted before (see this), English Heritage has been building some new neolithic houses at its Stonehenge visitor centre.  This has involved volunteers from a range of backgrounds, possessing (and learning) an equally diverse range of skills.  Clearly,...

Should ESD be about sustainable development at all? An odd question to ask, perhaps, and many will think the response a no-brainer, as we watch coasts crumble and sea levels rise, the skies grow darker yet, and poverty and injustice...

The Guardian reports that university researchers recommend saying global warming rather than climate change if you want to influence Americans.  The two terms are often used interchangeably but they generate very different responses, according to researchers from Yale and George Mason Universities....

In an FT [1] review of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, by David Harvey, and Utopia or Bust: a guide to the present crisis, by Benjamin Kunkel, Martin Sandbu raises a point about the viewing of difficult and...