New Publications

Foot note 30 (page 14) to the expert panel's report to government refers to an 1882 publication [ Page T (ed): Moffatt’s Pupil Teachers’ Course: First Year (London: Moffatt & Paige) ] with this quote: The ‘New Code’ detailed in this...

Think Global has welcomed the report of the national curriculum expert panel.  It has not, however, explicitly welcomed the recommendations.  This is perhaps unsurprising given that its core notions of global citizenship / learning are conspicuously absent from the report,...

Just before Christmas, the DfE published a report by the expert panel set up to guide the English national curriculum review process.  This is now available on the DfE website.  The DfE says: This report summarises the Expert Panel’s thinking...

I'm grateful to the NUS's Jamie Agombar for pointing me towards recent Defra-sponsored research on behaviour.  One of these studies focused on moments of change. This research project explored whether ‘moments of change’ – times in a person’s life where existing...

Happy New Year. This week's Economist carries a blog [ A less dismal debate ] on the positive influence of blogs.  Amongst the things it says are: ... whatever you think about the impact of blogging on political, scientific or...

This is not an example of my rather tardy New Year predictions, but the title of a recent article in the Onion – and thanks to Alan Reid for pointing it out as I've not been keeping up with the...

Terrible pun, but a very warm welcome, anyway, to Arjen Wals's new blog: Transformative Learning.  Arjen writes: Ultimately, sustainability needs to emerge in the everyday fabric of life – in the minds of people and in the values they live by....

In a discussion paper for the HEA, ESD and Inter-disciplinarity: focus and trajectories, written in preparation for yesterday's seminar: Inter-disciplinary Sustainability Education: Insights, Momentum and Futures, Alex Ryan writes: Following the work of Mezirow and developments by other educationalists, transformative learning processes generate...

Sweet chestnuts brown like soleing-leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun That paled sky in the Autumn seem’d to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black and...

I spotted this on the Taylor & Francis website Typical CO2 emissions from schools in England are rising, despite reductions to their heating demands, because of an increase in electricity consumption, according to new research published in the ‘Building Research...