Positive news, it would seem, on the national climate curriculum change [sic] front. I'm grateful to NAEE's Sarah Simmons for the alert to the Guardian on Friday which reported:
Michael Gove abandons plans to drop climate change from curriculum: climate change will stay on geography syllabus after lobbying from energy secretary Ed Davey.
But how curious of the Guardian to give all the credit to Ed Davy. It has been consistent about this, as I noted back in May, despite the huge range of organisations and individuals making citizenly interventions through petitions, letters to MPs (and Gove), newspaper articles, etc. Ed Davey was in good company. I hope he knows this.
So with climate change seemingly now in both science and geography, all we need is for geography and science teachers to work together for the benefit of learners' understandings. That might well be the harder battle, but professional development focused on bringing both together, perhaps organised with organisations of scientists and geographers, would be a good place to begin. Who will do this?
Meanwhile, the CO2 levels keep rising.
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