New Publications

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has released a set of school-focused resources based around circular economy ideas.  Their web pages say: Enriching the curriculum and enhancing young people’s skills and critical and creative thinking will be key to their future prospects...

So, welcome to the International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education (IJECEE) which is to be published by NAAEE which, I am told, is bearing all publication costs (except reviewing). Its blurb say it will publish scholarly written work, anonymously and...

I'm grateful, I think, to Alan Reid for the link to a gritty and grainy film of the first (that is, real) Tbilisi conference in 1977.  Shot in black, white, and 50+ shades of grey, this is a Soviet propaganda...

On my more bleak days, I think this is government policy, but all I have to do is to read one of Mr Gove's speeches to be myself again. Actually, it's the title [ No Child Left Thinking – democracy at...

The outcome document from Rio+20, The Future we Want, has something to say about education.  Something, but not very much, despite UNESCO apologists' (and the overly-optimistic) talking it up. This is the education-specific text for which we might have some...

A new publication from the IPPR: Oceans of innovation: The Atlantic, the Pacific, global leadership and the future of education: economy, education, political ideas, world politics. training and skills. The blurb begins ... The economic and educational achievements of the Pacific...

The research on the effectiveness of sustainable schools that colleagues and I carried out at the University of Bath some while back has been reinstated on the DfE website.  You can find it here.  This was originally removed when all that...

The latest edition of the SEEd E-Newsletter contains this statement from an experienced ESD primary school teacher in relation to what she took away from SEEd's 2012 sustainable schools conference ... “To go back and remember to include pupils and...

Here is a link to recent work carried out in Austria, Germany and Switzerland on indicators to evaluate ESD. The publication: Education on the Path to Sustainability – proposed indicator set to evaluate education for sustainable development results from the international research...

This is part of a message sent by UCU about the publication of the 2012 Green League Table ... "We are particularly concerned about the slow pace of change on education for sustainable development.  Only a third of institutions have...