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The national curriculum as a benchmark
I wrote the other day about the latest DfE rebuttal of the idea that it should do anything to encourage a focus on sustainability in schools. However, I think this response seems to go beyond the usual answer which was all about...
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Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools, and effects
This was the title of the I-SEE seminar the other week by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol. This is his Abstract: "Although the relevant scientific community long ago settled on the conclusion that human economic activities...
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Letter from a civil servant
The indefatigable Chris Southwood (of learning 2B sustainable) has been writing to the DfE again about a focus on sustainability in schools, and if you're a DfE civil servant, how apt it must be these days to work in Sanctuary Buildings. Below,...
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Forest Schools and Environmental Attitudes
Forest Schools and Environmental Attitudes: a case study of children aged 8–11 years, which was published last year by Cogent Education, was made available to celebrate International Forest Day (March 21st). This is what the paper's Abstract says: "There is growing evidence that children in...
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REAL Research Collective finds a new Wordsworth manuscript
Members of the REAL Research Collective (RRC), whilst on a recent study visit to Dove Cottage in Grasmere (UK), stumbled on a previously unseen Wordsworth manuscript that is a revision to his influential poem: The Tables Turned. As you will no doubt...
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Will the UK meet all the SDGs any time soon?
Well, maybe not according to a UN paper that's currently out for comment. Mind you, as ever, it will depend on what the questions are, crucially, on where the pass-mark is, and, probably, on who gets to set both of...
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From Kropotkin to Mao – and back
I was part of a creative small group at the West Midlands Sustainable Schools network before Easter. We were asked for our views on what we might do in relation to supporting the work of the network. This is what...
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Notes from a presentation
The other day, I posted the text of my talk to the Education 21 seminar in Zürich. Here are a couple of notes that I might have added to the post. The first is about the Enlightenment (or enlightenments?); the...
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What the poor need now are transgressive pedagogies
Thanks to the Transformative Learning blog for alerting me to the "cutting edge" special issue of Current Opinions of Environmental Sustainability, which focuses on new requisites to [sic] universities in the 21st century. The (open access) special issue features ten case studies (from no...
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Another landmark for Semington A
I recorded, back in July 2011, the fact that the power station on our roof, which I term, Semington A, had reached the giddy total output of 1 MW. It took 60 days, and as I noted back then, it...
