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0.679
0.679 (don’t you just love this precision) is Environmental Education Research’s impact factor in the education & educational research category of the Social Science Citation index which gives it a ranking of 88/184 – not bad for a new-comer, and...
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Double science
I watched both Brian Cox and Bruce Hood on BBC 4 last night, with the promise of the best double science lesson for many years, if not ever. As usual in these programmes, Cox flew round the world to...
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ESD is ...
Just what, exactly? Well, I read a comment recently that ... ESD is education that addresses the inter-relatedness of social justice, ecological integrity and economics Oh, how I wish it did, but the sort of ESD that I usually come across...
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New kid on the blog
Terrible pun, but a very warm welcome, anyway, to Arjen Wals's new blog: Transformative Learning. Arjen writes: Ultimately, sustainability needs to emerge in the everyday fabric of life – in the minds of people and in the values they live by....
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Last snowdrops of the year
These should more properly be the first snowdrops of 2012, I suppose, but given that they are in bloom at the University in December, that seems premature – or precocious, maybe – possibly like the snowdrops themselves. Some will cite...
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Plan A: the learning store
I'm grateful to Nick Jones for the news that M&S has opened its first international sustainable learning store. Sadly, this is in India, so I'll not be popping along any time soon, but I would were it a bit nearer...
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Before the big bang
I watched an engaging BBC4 Horizon programme last night which mostly involved theoretical cosmologists putting forward their own ideas and a few arcane diagrams, and being just ever so slightly, but fairly nicely, dismissive of those of others. Not all...
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Transformative learning – or is it transformative teaching?
In a discussion paper for the HEA, ESD and Inter-disciplinarity: focus and trajectories, written in preparation for yesterday's seminar: Inter-disciplinary Sustainability Education: Insights, Momentum and Futures, Alex Ryan writes: Following the work of Mezirow and developments by other educationalists, transformative learning processes generate...
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The road out of Durban
I posted recently on Saudi attempts to get hold of some of the green cash that's to be given to countries that are adversely affected by the world's carbon-reduction efforts. This, in the House of Saud's case, is to compensate...
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Transforming, reforming, or (merely) evolving?
In a brief, but aptly thoughtful, 'Thinkpiece' for the 2009 Universities that Count annual report, Stephen Sterling makes a distinction between universities whose sustainability-focused work might be seen as reformist in nature, and those where this might be viewed as...
