June 2023

I've written a couple of posts recently on climate literacy.   I'm writing again just to record an unease. Climate Literacy crops up a lot these days, in part at least because of the need to think about climate education;...

I see that the auto-crats employed by the Climate Change Committee have woken up to the fact that hybrid cars don't do many miles on their electric motors – that's because their batteries are so small.  These cars are really...

This is an email that was recently sent to a range of organisations including: UKSSN; NEU's Climate Change Network; IoE's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education; Education Climate Coalition; The Harmony Project; Ministry of Eco Education; Global Action Plan; SOS-UK;...

I'm not aware of any data on the diversity of school eco-clubs / groups / etc.  Obviously this will vary somewhat from region to region and from school to school, but my educated guess of a national picture, assuming that...

I wrote the other day about the lack of a definition by the RMetS of 'climate literacy'.  I was wrong, it seems (thanks to all those with better memories than me for pointing it out).  RMetS said what it means...

If you've seen NAEE's most recent weekly news round up, you'll have read about a synthesis report published by the Royal Meteorological Society [RMetS]. It  confirms what we all knew: that there are many opportunities for climate change education within the...

I wrote the other day about Michael Young (and others) who introduced the notion of powerful knowledge which they argued can enable students to move beyond their own experiences.  This debate is an active one in Scotland where its Curriculum for Excellence is...

Another example of the mainstream media becoming interested in environmental / sustainability education comes from the Spectator website where an article by Joanna William asks: Who allowed Dale Vince’s climate curriculum to take over schools? This is how it begins: Recently,...

A few years ago, Michael Young (and others) introduced the notion of powerful knowledge. This they argued, is something that ... "can enable students to acquire knowledge that takes them beyond their own experiences” (Young et al., 2014, p. 7)....

Verbotspartei "A Brahmin caste of sanctimonious puritans who like to ban things for the pure joy of prohibition" Remind you of anyone or anything? Sensitivity readers perhaps?  Hanif Kureishi thinks so, saying recently that they get turned on and excited...