New Publications

If you ever really doubted that humans and all other animals were created (by the Almighty) at the same time, then try this lively romp through literature to see how it meets your standards of scholarship.  It's another good news story...

I wrote, back in February, about the UN's sustainable development goals [SDG], particularly about Goal 4, the one relating to education, learning, ESD / etc / etc.  This has 10 targets associated with it. Altogether, there are now 17 goals, and...

Given the curriculum and accountability chaos unleashed by the government’s education policies, it is timely of Routledge to make Michael Young’s editorial from a special issue of the Curriculum Journal – "What is a curriculum and what can it do?" freely available....

It's an old joke, and the answer is 'from a safe distance'.  However, if you're a charity trustee or a company non-exec director trying to exercise your scrutiny function, you often have little option but to do just that.  You are...

 A new DfID Topic Guide is available that "sets out the existing knowledge around the links between education, climate and environment [and] highlights the two-way relationship between these key areas."  These include: The risks and opportunities posed by environmental and climatic...

I've been reading Monitoring Education for Global Citizenship: A Contribution to Debate, but it's no publication for old(er) men.  It's near-unreadable on screen because of the PDF formatting, and you need a magnifying glass to read the paper copy.  It's (un)clearly meant for the...

Well, with TED, and in particular Johan Rockström.  Here he is in 2010.  I was alerted to this by the Independent the other day with an article by Christopher Hooton about a paper published by Rockström in Science in January 2015. The Indy's title was stark:...

EER has finally published its much awaited special issue [SI] on environmental education in the age of neo-liberalism". Arjen Wals, a contributor, says this about it in his blog: Environmental Education Research has just published a special issue on environmental education...

I'm sitting at my desk in the University of Bath.  When I actually was employed here, I spent far too much time since about 2001 worrying away about external research assessment / excellence frameworks and exercises; it passed for work....

I watched BBC FOUR's Climate Change by Numbers programme the other day with my usual foreboding about what the BBC's science programmes often default to: talking heads in exotic locations, with triple air miles and fine hotels for all concerned.  I...