Bill Scott
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Bill Scott1 July 2009
Sustainable School Doorways
The DCSF's use of the doorway metaphor has meant that the language of its sustainable schools framework was already familiar to school leaders because it mapped squarely onto many recent policy foci; for example, healthy eating / citizenship / well-being / transport /...
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Bill Scott1 July 2009
Schools, but not as we know them, perhaps
It seems to me that one of those seminal moments is approaching, when we shall have to decide whether sustainability in schools is to be seen and treated as just another initiative, a bit like environmental education or global citizenship...
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Bill Scott28 June 2009
The UN ESD Decade – half way there
For three days at the end of March, 900+ people assembled in Bonn for the mid-Decade review. This brief comment is partial - in at least two senses. 1. EFA and ESD If you log onto the UNESCO Education homepage you will see that UNESCO's top priority is “Education...
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Bill Scott20 June 2009
Stanley Fish and the line of virtue
Last November, the THE's Devil's Advocate column focused on Stanley Fish, the Milton scholar. I was reminded of the piece as I sat in the back of a primary school classroom the other day watching what was going on. In...
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Bill Scott20 June 2009
People & Planet – 2009
I see that the University has slipped (again) in the Green League table – 56th this time – only getting a 2:2. What's worse, we're not only behind the usual stalwarts at Gloucestershire and Plymouth, but also trailing in the...
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Bill Scott20 June 2009
There is a TIDE in the affairs of men ...
Another engaging meeting with TIDE in Birmingham on Thursday: What on earth are we thinking? This drew a large audience from schools, local authorities, NGOs, government offices, community and religious groups, FE and HE, and museums from across the west...
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Bill Scott10 June 2009
Forthcoming talks and presentations
Monday 15th June; 1930 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution The Idea of a Sustainable School: dreams, hopes and realities Thursday 18th June TIDE...
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Bill Scott10 June 2009
Talking with Architects
The government has a hugely ambitious goal that every school will be a 'sustainable school' by 2020, and it encourages institutions to address sustainability across all aspects of school life through: [i] what (and how) students are taught; [ii] how...
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Bill Scott10 June 2009
GOSW-funded sustainable schools training programme
The University of Bath's Centre for Research in Education and the Environment [CREE] has now completed its external evaluation report of the GOSW-funded sustainable schools training programme which had been carried out by a consortium of local authorities and third...
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Bill Scott10 June 2009
Learning for Sustainability from the pupils’ perspective
The recent publication from WWF: Learning for Sustainability from the pupils’ perspective reports on Chris Gayford's 3-year research with 15 schools, and raises significant issues about the skills that young people might develop and sets out ideas on the progression of...