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Aichi-Nagoya 1 – Will you be there?
Will you be at Aichi-Nagoya, I mean, for UNESCO's latest ESDFest which starts today? It has been billed by the terminally optimistic as the beginning to the end of the world's problems. This, on balance, may be somewhat exaggerated, and I hope...
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A reply from HEFCE
On October 23rd, I wrote to Hefce's CEO, Professor Madeleine Atkins, about the Council's new (but still draft) Sustainable Development Framework. My purpose was to say that I hoped that a sentiment which Hefce expressed in 2009 would be included in the 2014 document....
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Explain the link between the ozone hole and global warming (10 marks)
I can remember much moral panic a few years back amongst education researchers of a particular bent who were worried that students (who were mostly too young to know better) thought that the stratospheric ozone hole was contributing to global warming and...
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Two more reasons not to be at ECER 2015
Any residual, thoughts I had that I might yet attend ECER 2015 in Budapest have been completely scuppered by two new bit of info. The first is the knowledge that Michael W Apple is a keynote speaker. Listening to the...
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Bravely gazing backwards
I've been reading the NUT's new manifesto for education (schools) in England. It does not take long. It has also produced one for Wales which I could not bring myself to look at. The NUT seems to have turned itself into...
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The washing machines that give rise to books
If you’ve not seen Hans Rosling speaking about the magic of the washing machine on this TED talk, you really should. These machines produce books, you know. It's instructive to listen to the audience's nervous laughter, as it realises where the...
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Have you got Global Whatever it is?
I had an email recently from Tom Franklin, Think Global’s CEO. Maybe you did too. He invited me for lunch (and an AGM). Sadly, I was busy. I was struck that his very short message included all the following phrases: global learning...
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More on Skills Mapping
I wrote yesterday about the problems of identifying 'sustainability skills'. I noted that the world is full of people with so-called sustainability skills such as 'critical thinking' but that many such skills are purpose and value-neutral. It all depends on how they are used in the...
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Skills Mapping on an ESD programme
At a summer meeting with a university's ESD team, we heard that its students have described the skills they see relating to sustainability. The ESD team noted that these could be applicable to just about any subject area, echoing the idea of sustainability...
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Schooling for Sustainable Development in Europe
There's a new book around: ‘Schooling for Sustainable Development in Europe’ . This "... examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe. It describes and analyses how individual countries and the region as a...
