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Max Planck said that "science advances one funeral at a time".  By this he meant that the death of prominent / dominant figures in a field freed up others to claim the limelight for their personalities and ideas.  These days,...

Forest Schools and Environmental Attitudes: a case study of children aged 8–11 years, which was published last year by Cogent Education, was made available to celebrate International Forest Day (March 21st). This is what the paper's Abstract says: "There is growing evidence that children in...

The other day, I posted the text of my talk to the Education 21 seminar in Zürich.  Here are a couple of notes that I might have added to the post.  The first is about the Enlightenment (or enlightenments?); the...

Thanks to the Transformative Learning blog for alerting me to the "cutting edge" special issue of Current Opinions of Environmental Sustainability, which focuses on new requisites to [sic] universities in the 21st century. The (open access) special issue features ten case studies (from no...

Sadly, there is now an EESD manifesto for Europe.  I think it comes from our friends at WEEC.  The email alert says: Environmental education towards sustainable development (EESD) is a necessity.  There’s a wide acknowledgement about that on several European...

I've long viewed the University of British Columbia as the place to emulate and learn from when it comes to an all-round approach to sustainability, albeit with a critical eye on what they've not managed to do yet. They have...

Sustainability is mentioned seven times in the 2016 grant letter from BIS to Hefce.  But all in the 'endurability' sense, where the focus is financial and/or economic. Quite a change from previous years when everyone at least pretended to take the...

The NAEE blog has a recent, and rather skeptical, post about a paper in EER.  This is: Fraser J, Gupta R & Krasny ME (2015) Environmental Education Research 21(5) 777-800 I read it when it first emerged, and also wondered how...

I've been reading the arguments made following the recent House of Commons Education select committee call for submissions on the purpose and quality of education in England.  Written evidence was invited to address the following: What the purpose of education for children of...

I ask, not because Trump has done this to me – and it seems unlikely he ever would, unless I start writing about Mexicans – but because an academic equivalent has – that is, someone I usually put in the same sort...