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Critical Thinking for Development Education
To Galway for the 2009 DERN conference: Critical Thinking for Development Education – moving from evaluation to research. Good to be back in Ireland and once more amongst development education types many of whose assumptions and ways of thinking I...
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SDRN Conference
The annual SDRN conference was held last week at the Welcome Trust. For the first time in its 10 year history there was a slot on the programme for a focus on education (on ESD), and I was happy to...
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The Idea of Justice
I went to hear Amartya Sen a few weeks ago and was rather disappointed – not by the great man himself but by how the session was organised (disorganised more like). It was so bad that it was hard...
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Research Grants Nosedive – time for a creative response
Thus, Times Higher Education [ THE ] reported the increasingly small chance that researchers now have of squeezing cash out of six research councils. Across the piece, applicants have a 23% chance of funding, and the figure is less than...
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Taxpayers funding Brazilian dance troupe in London borough – Shock
Those of us reading the Daily Mail regularly will already have enjoyed this headline on 12th September. Not bad as the Mail goes, I suppose, but not a patch on the Sun's recent "Get De Beers in" as England's footballers...
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Earth First!
Holidays almost over, and the urge to sit in front of a computer reasserts itself in my priorities, elbowing the taking of exercise out of the way. I did manage some fresh air and walking during the break, however, and...
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The Journal of Unpublishable Papers
In this week's Economist, there's a heart-warming story of a successful journal start up. Rejecta Mathematica is a "real open access online journal publishing only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals in the mathematical sciences". As the Economist...
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Are young people really worried about climate change?
I wrote the following on June 20th, and tracked down Pete Williams from Somerfield, asking for a copy of the report that Bjorn Lomborg seems to have been so impressed by. Alas, I've heard nothing. Time to chase again, perhaps....
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Judging the Effectiveness of a Sustainable School
This essay explores a central question for all those involved in education and sustainability (ESD): What are you really most interested in: educational or social outcomes—what learners learn, or what they do? Although this is hardly a new question, the paper argues that...
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What to do about all that University Carbon
Under the heading: "Let's have a heated debate: Universities are about to be given targets for carbon reduction – expect arguments about the best approach", the Guardian recently explored the issue of how UK universities might contribute to the UK's carbon-reduction...
