July 2015

Confirmation from the provinces that those folk at FACE have grand ambitions for themselves and others.  Hence the Countryside Classroom, which, according to FACE is: "... an online portal that enables teachers to quickly and easily access high-quality resources, as well as identifying venues...

I have written a few posts now (see this, this and this) about Natural England's recent Near and Far conference.  It obviously made quite an impression on me – not wholly positive it has to be said.  I have been asked,...

Friday and Saturday morning found me in (two different) Wiltshire fields under ephemeral cirrus cloud, amid bird noise and warmed by a strong breeze.  I was with about 40 other people on each occasion at [i] the launch of Wiltshire Wildlife Trust's Wild Connections...

For me, the best bit of the Far 'n' Near conference was the presentation by Matt Stevenson on Attention Restoration Theory.  This was an afternoon session on methodology, and the three other talks were all almost as good. I enjoyed the talks...

I can't remember whether I asked the question of myself during the recent near 'n' far conference presentation by the team from Natural Connections, or whether they asked it themselves.  Sadly, my notes are rather unconnected on that point.  It's a good...

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by. In his introductory remarks to...

"In summertime on Bredon The bells they sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far and near, A happy noise to hear." Whilst I was incarcerated in the University of East London last week, at Natural...

Last November, I posted a comment on a Birmingham seminar: Children, their World, their Education, which was hosted by TIDE.  Seminar discussions raised questions about: The aims and purposes of education – what do we make of the new Sustainable Development Goals...

I said last week that I anticipated a lot of sitting and listening when we met in the University of East London for a day conference about outdoor education / learning: Lessons from Near and Far.  It was, however, much...

The Guardian reports that a British field trial of a GM wheat that was designed to repel aphids has found the crop to have no better protection than conventional wheat.  The trials compared aphid attacks on standard wheat plants with those suffered by...