New Publications

As I noted when I wrote about on Estyn's new ESDGC report, the headlines were mostly very positive.  When you look at the detail of the report, and at the recommendations, however, things look less rosy: Estyn’s recommendations are that Schools...

This report is published in response to a request for advice from the Welsh Government.  It reports on the progress that primary, secondary and special schools have made in education for sustainable development and global citizenship (ESDGC) since 2006 when Estyn...

A while back, The Guardian carried a brief feature titled: "A sustainable school succeeds".  It was a rehearsing of opportunities for institutions wishing to be a 'sustainable school', and was an endorsement of Eco-schools, SEEd, and the Sustainable Schools Alliance....

A week ago, I was at a poorly-attended, but rather stimulating, meeting of the Higher Education Academy's advisory group on ESD.  It benefitted from the presence of a senior HEA staffer who brought keen knowledge of the Academy's current problems to...

NIACE – which sells itself as “The National Voice for Lifelong Learning” – has launched it’s manifesto for the elections in 2015: Skills for Prosperity – Building Sustainable Recovery for All This says: “This manifesto urges all of the political...

There was much talk last week of British values, and the need for schools to teach them – and not just in Birmingham.  Not for the first time schools are asked to step up at times of moral crisis. In a piece I was...

This is the title of a paper from David Stevens of the University of Nottingham in Studies in Philosophy and Education (February 2014).  It's available (to purchase) here. Here's the Abstract ... Proponents of environmentalist views often urge the teaching of such views and the inculcation of...

The HEA's 2012/13 annual report, comments on the Academy's sustainability work under a number of headings.  For the record, here are the references to sustainability, sustainable development, and ESD.  There are quite a few: Change (p. 36) We offer a...

The UN University has issued a report on resilience in socio-ecological production landscape indicators (SEPLs) that were developed between Bioversity International and the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). The report begins by defining the terminology of SEPLs, resilience, and the...

The Guardian reports that university researchers recommend saying global warming rather than climate change if you want to influence Americans.  The two terms are often used interchangeably but they generate very different responses, according to researchers from Yale and George Mason Universities....