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While snow the window-panes bedim
This is John Clare’s December that speaks of simple pleasures of a child’s Christmas, which, despite our more material, comfortable, and increasingly electronic times, can still make winter memorable. While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny...
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Reviewing the Manifesto launch
I wasn't able to be at the launch of the Manifesto we all Want the other day. Had I been there, however, I hope that I might have managed to write the sort of perceptive review that the University of...
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Co-production of knowledge with plants, animals, materialities ...
Are you tired of life? Are you jaded by its materialist urgings? Do you feel yourself helpless in a neo-liberal embrace? Have you lost sight of what it is to be inter-human? Do you no longer know who you...
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Every sentence a rebuke ...
I commented a while back on draft guidance produced by HEAQAA experts. This included 50+ (E)SD learning outcomes for students leaving universities. In my response, I raised a number of issues about their content and about who they were...
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All change at English Heritage as it becomes Historic England – and English Heritage
I am slowly catching up with the changes to English Heritage [ EH ]. These are visionary or desparate, according to taste. EH is to be broken up: one part, still to be called English Heritage, will become a charity...
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So, was there LiFE in Copernicus?
About a year ago, I wrote this: We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC’s LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there...
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Let's blame academics, says a Guardian headline
The headline to a Guardian HE Network blog, published last week, says: Why have academics been so slow to work with students on sustainability? It's always a newspaper temptation to identify a culprit or two. The blog post itself, by...
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Free social learning towards a sustainable world
The day began with a free vintage (c. 2007) e-book offer from Arjen Wals: Social learning towards a sustainable world. The publisher's blurb begins with commendable understatement: "This comprehensive volume – containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents presents...
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Higher Education for Sustainable Development – an interview
A while back, I had an "interview" by questionnaire. An odd process; whilst it certainly gave me a lot of time to consider and shape my responses, there no time to interact with the interviewer. I sent a few papers...
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My week
This began well with an extended cabaret on the lawn by a green woodpecker and then the arrival of the first fieldfares. Fortunately, we have enough apples and ants to cater for all. Poor PISA scores were heralded by Sunday newspaper...
