New Publications

The DfE's School Research News reports today on two school citizenship reports.  The first is  Citizenship Education in England 2001-2010: young people’s practices and prospects for the future: the eighth and final report from the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study. The other is...

I have been browsing Unesco's latest coffee table book: Tomorrow Today.  This is a heafty tome for which only strong (and rich) coffee tables need apply.  It sells for a cool $125.  However, with one or two exceptions, I thought...

Steve Gough and I have a new paper published today in Sustainability.  Here's the Abstract – in case you're tempted to read it ... It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings...

... and pro-environmental behaviour.   The SDRN has released this report compiled by Andrew Dobson.   The report and a briefing paper are available as pdfs. It provides an overview of research evidence relating to  environmental citizenship, considers the origins...

Today's Guardian has a story about a report on the Fairtrade Foundation which compares its effectiveness unfavourably with multinationals (Nestlé, etc) when it comes to helping developing world coffee farmers.  This is an IEA report which seems to say, amongst...

It is widely reported that the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has now abandoned the department’s sustainable schools strategy and, hence, any active government promotion of, and support for, the idea and reality of sustainable schools.  I say...

Ken Webster and Craig Johnson's challenging book (now revised) has been re-issued through the Ellen Macarthur Foundation as a free PDF.  Download it here.  Ken is now the Foundation's Head of Learning.

Half a Lifetime ago I had my first paper published in School Science Review.  I was still a schoolteacher and it was a reflection on reflection (of sorts) on practice.  Some 35 years later, my second will shortly come out...

Scotland's Action Plan for the second half of the UN's Decade is available here.  More comment when I've read it.

A cautionary tale from today's SDRN Update: A new carbon footprinting tool, developed by researchers at the University of Manchester, suggests that lamb curry ready-made meals eaten in the UK amount to an annual carbon footprint equivalent to 5,500 car...