New Publications

The latest NUS survey (with Change Agents and the HEA) of student and employer attitudes towards (and skills for) sustainable development in HE has been published.  You cannot access it here, because the HEA's link doesn't work.  A metaphor, I...

No, not the police, but the Office, which I wrote about last week.  Here are a couple of other perspectives: from Christopher Booker, and from The Conversation, which a colleague in New Zealand alerted me to.  Oddly, I did not...

The USA's National Wildlife Federation encourages outdoor learning in school gardens and habitat areas and is active in 8,400 schools. As such, it is interested in the academic and broader learning effects of school garden programs, and has recently tried to summarise what the...

This is from The Spectator on August 21st, 1915: "War is a time in which a shortage of labourers can least be borne with.  The land must not go untilled, the seed must not remain unsown, or the crops unharvested....

This is the title of a new paper by Kerry Shephard and Pete Dulgar in Applied Environmental Education & Communication [2015, 14:3, 137-148, DOI: 10.1080/1533015X.2015.1067577] You can access it here. For those who cannot, a limited number of copies are also...

A hedge school is not some finishing academy for fund managers sponsored by the Titans of Wall Street, or an arcane off-shoot of the forest school movement; rather, it's the name given to an educational practice in 18th and 19th...

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...

This is my first comment on the Pope's encyclical: On Care for Our Common Home.  In a sense, it is much too soon to prejudge it.  I have, however, been impressed by the range of commentators. There's George Monbiot, writing in...

I feel, in that sense of balance that seizes me now and again, to refer you to Guy Watson, an organic farmer, who has written an article for the Telegraph's Food 'n' Drink page.  Its focus is the BBC Panorama programme on GM that...

I wrote the other day about UNESCO's latest enthusiasm: Global Citizenship Education [ GCE ].  I've read the report: tedious stuff, mostly; full of long lists of things like: 1. Key Learner Attributes Informed and critically literate Know about local, national and...