News and Updates

This is the agenda for the meeting of Extinction Rebellion [XR] educators that took place in London last night: 1.  Check in and welcome to new members 2. Updates following Rebellion: total change in media/political debate; head teachers call for CC...

A special issue of Sustainability on education and the sustainable development goals.  Editor Harold Glasser writes: "In these polarized times of fake news and climate change denial on one hand and calls for transformative change and progressive capitalism on the...

I was pleased to see the report in Carlisle's News & Star of the youth summit on climate change that was held at the University of Cumbria just before Easter.  It was organised by the enterprising folk at Robert Ferguson...

Sadly, it is too late to submit your manuscript idea or abstract for a special issue Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT).  Full details here.  My thoughts are at the end of the editors' lengthy blurb: ESD in the ”Capitalocene”: Caught...

If you click here, you will find the petition by 4 school students from Cheney School on change.org .  This is what they say: We are four 15 year old school students who are deeply concerned about the damage we’re...

I see that ESRC has invited proposals for a new Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). ESRC says: "Education is not only a fundamental human right, but also an indispensable tool in the pursuit of sustainable development.  However, it is increasingly...

Just before Easter, I wrote about Motion 8 which was passed at the National Education Union [NEU] conference, noting that it wasn't clear what exactly was agreed.  However, thanks, to friends in low places, here is the final text: Climate Change Conference recognises...

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Pity Labour Party stalwart David Lambert, 60, who walked for eight days from Stroud to Islington in order to show love, honour and devotion to his Leader by chaining himself and three comrades to the Leader’s garden fence.  This was...

As I wrote the other day, I am particularly sympathetic to the first aim of the XR movement: The Government must tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency, reverse inconsistent policies and work alongside the media to...