March 2021

A while back, Teach the Future launched a campaign to have members of the education professions write to their MPs calling for better climate education in schools.  I duly obliged.  Below is what I sent based on a template provided...

This is a slightly edited version of the obituary which was published in Vol 98 of the NAEE journal, Environmental Education in 2011 (pages 31/32).   It is included here with the kind permission of the three original contributors: Norman Farmer,...

News comes that Kew Gardens is to decolonise its collection.  Kew recently published a manifesto for change, saying that it was going to “ensure the diverse countries and cultures that partner with RBG Kew and contribute to our collections are accurately...

I've been asked, given what I've been writing lately (see this and this), whether I'm still a supporter of the promised natural history GCSE from OCR. Well, given that I'm still a member of the advisory board, the answer is...

I've lost count of the number of times that I've had to argue that scepticism is a positive process.  In part this is clearly because some people conflate scepticism and cynicism which they regard as negativity whereas it is also...

I've been re-watching the BBC1 Countryfile show where there was a feature on environmental education.  As the NAEE weekly round-up noted, one strong theme of the programme was that it’s young people who are demanding and driving curriculum innovation, and...

What does the phrase "climate science" mean to you?  I learned the other day that it can mean almost anything; that is, it all depends what you mean by "science". The average person in the street might (reasonably in my...

Steve Martin, who writes the Transformative Future Learning blog has written about the new guidance on ESD from QAA and its friends.  It's fair to say that he's underwhelmed.  This is how the post ends: " ... in 2014, the...