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Some clarity around curriculum aims
Being confused about English school curriculum aims (statutory, voluntary or otherwise), I recently asked the DfE this; If you go to: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/b00199676/aims-values-and-purposes/aims ... you find three aims for the national curriculum set out. On the right, there is a link...
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Let's hear it for dis-ablebodied animals
Houston, Wednesday 1st May The All American Association for Affirmative Action for Dis-Ablebodied Animals [ AAAAAD-AA ] has called for less discrimination by wildlife charities in their treatment of animals, and criticised the continual portrayal of stereotypical images of fit...
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After Sustainability: denial, hope, retrieval
This is the title of today's I-SEE seminar at Bath. It marks John Foster's welcome return to the university after too long an absence. Here's the abstract of his talk: Why don’t we admit that dangerous climate change is coming?...
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Higher education, sustainability, and London buses
Just when you've getting tired of waiting for a half-decent book about higher education and sustainability to come along, like London buses, two of them arrive; and, just like London buses, they're from the same company. Routledge (Abingdon) has released...
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Finns come bottom of an educational league table at last
After tireless investigation, Department for Education apparatchiks have at last found an educational league table that those bothersome Finns come bottom in. It's in a recent report from Unicef: Child well-being in rich countries: a comparative overview; Innocenti Report Card...
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The hidden curriculum at Plymouth
On the train last week for Debby Cotton's inaugural lecture, rounding off Plymouth's 2013 PedRIO research day. I like Inaugurals; such grand occasions when newly-minted professors have the challenge of explaining what gets them up in the morning to,...
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Developing the sustainable school: thinking the issues through
Developing the sustainable school: thinking the issues through is the title of a paper that I have just been published by The Curriculum Journal. You can access it here. This is the Abstract: This paper reports on a study...
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NUS to save the planet and the world
I've been watching the new promotional video from the NUS green (ethics & environment) team. It's here, and was well received at the recent EUAC conference. It's RSA-Animate in style, but more breathless (and Welsh). Now, like Hefce (but for...
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ESD in England – less briefly ...
As I wrote last month, I have been involved in some work for the UK UNESCO National Commission, part of a good team [Note 1], ably led by Steve Martin, writing an ESD Brief [Note 2] covering the UK which ......
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Learning to care for the environment, but not the newspapers
As I noted yesterday, I signed a letter that the Sunday Times published on 14th April. In association with this, I was contacted by the Sunday Times last Thursday evening. They said: "We also want to publish a news story...
