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Are there are still innocents abroad ...
... who think that the UK government has a clear and coherent energy policy despite all the evidence around them? Are there those who really believe that carbon targets will be met, or that the lights will stay on, or...
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The BBC Science Club
I watched this the other night as it promised to be Brian Cox-free. It was, and I was impressed with what went on: populist, but serious-ish. I actually learned something – about Einstein's work on fridges. The kitchen experiment to...
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The saber-tooth curriculum
I have been searching for a while now for a web-version of the Saber-Tooth Curriculum. I remember this from my teacher training, those long years ago, when teachers were encouraged (that is, required) to think about curriculum – as opposed...
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ESD – more on supply and demand
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about supply- and demand-side approaches to ESD provision in formal education programmes. Here's another dimension to the debate. ESD is normally presented as a supply-side issue. It concerns what teachers do, and how...
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Letting a thousand civil servants ...
Let's face it, Mr Gove's cunning plan to sack 1000 of his Department's staff is probably not Maoist in intent, though it is in terms of zeal. He is unlikely to have thought to himself one morning over his...
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One Wales, one planet, two languages
A while back, I posted something on the SHED blog about the 2009 report: One Wales: One Planet and a question Jane Davidson asks in a recent lecture: "So what would a sustainable Wales look like?" This seems to be...
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ESD, without the label
In his con brio deliberative chapter (with Ken Webster) in Learning for Sustainability, Paul Vare writes ... "ESD, if we remove the label, is education that addresses the inter-relatedness of social justice, ecological integrity and economic viability. We may focus...
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An end to curriculum
Last Friday the BBC reported on a leaked government paper about the revisions to the curriculum in England. The BBC begins ... A draft copy of the new secondary curriculum for England, leaked to the Times Educational Supplement (TES), has drawn...
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Effect of fasting versus feeding on the bone metabolic response to running
I know! But when your offspring has a paper featured on the Issue Highlights page of the eponymous journal, Bone, then an urge to celebrate the fact is hard to resist. Here's the Abstract Individuals often perform exercise in the...
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Put out yet more (green) flags
I am told that "almost all schools in Scotland are now registered with the government-supported Eco Schools scheme, with nearly 50% having achieved a ‘Green Flag'". The clue here, I suspect, is "government-sponsored", with school leaders carefully reading between the...
