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Is there too much escapist wildlife fantasy at the BBC?
As I've long held the view that the BBC's flagship nature documentaries, particularly those coming out of the Natural History unit in Bristol, were uninterested in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, it's good to see that...
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Emphasising learning rather than behaviour
Just before Christmas, I was asked if I'd write 400 words on "the link between education for sustainable development and behavior" for an "an international education for sustainable development project". This is not the sort of invitation I get all that...
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Animality
Animality was an exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho that might be seen as a complement to the Wellcome exhibition which I mentioned recently. You can see a slideshow of the images here. This is how their press release about the...
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What's the collective noun for UNESCO Chairs?
Alas, this is one of the many unknowns about UNESCO – but at least it's a known unknown. Perhaps it's a Stack. One known known about it all is that those who don't know are precisely matched by those who...
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WEEC 2017 Re-interconnecting the separated inseparables
There was an almost plangent tone to the message to the EE Mailbase back in December about WEEC 2017, an event, I readily confess, I'd been trying to ignore. The message title was: Perspectives, Challenges and Innovation in Research – WEEC2017...
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Slow going at Longleat
The lone cheetah we saw at Longleat over Christmas looked in better fettle than the Rhinos that were relentlessly pacing round their enclosure, but it wasn't exactly behaving like a cheetah. It wasn't, for example, travelling at 29m / second chasing...
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Nicole Ardoin recognised for contributions to environmental education research
I was pleased to see that the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) has awarded Stanford's Nicole Ardoin for her outstanding contributions to research. At last some positive news from the USA. More detail here.
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40 years on from Tbilisi
2017 will see the 40th anniversary of the Tbilisi conference and declaration which, at the time, we seen by many to be full of promise for a better future. We shall no doubt be urged to remember Tbilisi and celebrate...
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PISA scores too high in Peru
Peru's education minister is in trouble just when the country's PISA scores have risen sharply. The Economist called it a "small act of national suicide". It's article begins: "FOR most of this century, Peru’s economy has shone: income per person has doubled in...
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The education of girls
The education of girls is a key priority within the sustainable development goals that the UK has signed up to. It has been a recent priority for DfID as well, as part of the UK's international aid programme. A recent...
