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  • EESD: Lord Browne, and half a speech

    The second keynote on day one of the conference was given by Lord Browne of Maddingley.  It  hadn't a title, which may have been because it didn't have much of a focus.  This was a keynote that could have been...

  • EESD-13 an international affair

    The number of countries represented here is impressive.  They include: USA     Canada     Mexico     Colombia     Chile     Virgin Islands     Ghana     South Africa     Malaysia     China     Australia  ...

  • Going to EESD 13 – still rethinking the engineer

    I'm off to EESD 13 this week – just to listen, and to represent ELSA ; the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance.   This is the conference blurb: Much progress has been made over the last decade in introducing concepts...

  • Schools meals for all – probably not

    Well, we shall see whether the government's new policy of free school meals for all under 7s will deliver its desired outcomes in terms of increased pupil concentration in the afternoon, and greater attainment – well, in the narrow sense...

  • Wildlife, human population, and confusion

    The Wildlife Trusts have produced a statement on population, resource use & consumption in the UK.  It begins: The Wildlife Trusts believe that it is insufficient simply to prevent the further decline in the quantity and quality of existing habitats,...

  • My week

    I was at ECER in Istanbul with the new ESE Network – which you will know all about if you've been paying attention. The meeting was at BAU, a university I'd not been to before.   There’s a rumour that it’s...

  • ECER ESE 2

    The presentations in the second Symposium session were: Research in Higher Education for Sustainable Development – Current Trends and Approaches Matthias Barth (University of Applied Sciences, Ostwestfalen-Lippe) & Marco Rieckmann (University of Vechta) Implementing ESE in education systems. Researching the...

  • ECER ESE 1

    Yesterday's presentations in the first Symposium session were: Education for Sustainable Development in School Contexts – Transformations and Translations Katrine Dahl Madsen (University of Aarhus) Research Priorities for Environmental Education in the UK, Europe and beyond Stephen Gough & Elsa...

  • Blogging from ECER

    After a gap of many years, I am at the European Conference on Educational Research in Istanbul.  The pull of this year's event was the first meeting of a new grouping: Research on Environmental and Sustainability Education [ESE].  Another anachrocnym, I...

  • In poor Faith

    I was contacted the other day by someone I didn't know who wrote: "I am researching for student resources and found this page here psi.org.uk/ehb/projectsbarratt.html and I wanted to see if you were the person that manages this page. I have...