News and Updates

I spend 6 days with Mrs M last week; well not with her exactly, but being in Germany amounts to much the same thing, the degree of social conformity you're faced with.  The sight of grown men (and women) standing at a...

In 1980, in A View of the Curriculum; HMI Series: Matters for Discussion No. 11, HMI said this: The curriculum, whether for a school as a whole or for individual pupils, has to be presented as more than a series of...

EAUC has launched a Fellows programme; you can find a full list of Fellows here. It is always difficult to draw up such lists and, individually, we may well be surprised about (to us) obvious omissions and/or odd choices.  Personally, I think...

In the 1980s, it was commonplace for English governments to copy, rather uncritically, educational initiatives from the USA.  It was, I suppose, an example of post-cultural cringe.  Those days are long gone. There is nothing necessary problematic about looking around to see...

As I noted back in early March, I wrote to Ofsted asking about the speech made by the new Chief Inspector (to the ASCL conference).  At the same time, I also wrote to the DfE asking, in particular, about this part of her speech: "I...

The Economist article, Friction lovers, was, in part, about the UN's DONUT [ Don't NUdge; Tell ] office that is promoting what is known (by some) as facile externality. It was also about that well-known socio-technical phenomenon, the IKEA Effect, and contained a lot...

UNESCO, in an attempt to stay relevant in the fast-changing, fluid world of gender politics within the UN family, has announced a new educational initiative: trans-ESD, which is to sit alongside the more usual ESD which is to be termed...

The details of the Trump administration's proposals around environmental protection (and education) are becoming clear.  This is what the Executive Director of the North American Association for Environmental Education [NAAEE] had to say to its members last week: Dear Friends:...

The NAEE blog, on March 16th and March 24th, carried stories about rivers getting legal status as people.  The rivers in question were the Whanganui river in New Zealand and the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. The March 24th post cited an Economist feature on...

News came the other day of a day-long workshop for WEEC participants on the question of what environmental education is, should be, and either might or must become.  Such a "is, should be, and either might or must become" confection can only have been dreamt...