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Affirming the negative
Michalinos Zembylas, from the Open University of Cyprus, has a chapter in a new book: Affect and the Rise of Rightwing Populism. This is the summary: "This chapter seeks to explore how, why and under which conditions a move away from critique...
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It's a record for environmental education
Where I searched the UK National Archive from 1960 to the present for the phrase "environmental education" I came up with 26 entries. These started in 1972 with items about environmental education in Bournemouth, Hertfordshire and Doncaster. Prominent entries related to the Belgrade...
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WWF is in the GB News
I watched the launch of the UK's newest news channel on Sunday. GB News is the UK’s first new news channel for some while. In his opening remarks, Andrew Neil set out the channel’s philosophy: "We will puncture the pomposity...
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Educating for the Future we Want?
I've been reading Stephen Sterling's opening essay in the new GTI Forum, The Pedagogy of Transition. It begins: "Formal education systems have—or should have—a critical role in the global social learning process underpinning the Great Transition. On the face of it,...
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Changing Society: one learner at a time
As promised, I didn't pay much attention to the UNESCO World Confluence on ESD but I have been looking at the resulting Berlin Declaration. "Declaration", I ask you! The obvious and unsubtle aim here is to encourage us to think of...
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The Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill
An Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill has been introduced into the House of Lords to "make provision in the national curriculum regarding sustainable citizenship and protection of the environment." It's a private members' bill and is 6th in line for debate....
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The Rude Rags of Nature
Perhaps the following John Clare poem (with its unusual sing-song meter) ought to be the anthem of all re-wilding projects as it valorises the wild at the expense of the cultivated. I came across it in WG Hoskins' magisterial The Making...
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No Mow May and the 2nd Law
I've been observing No Mow May on my front lawn for much longer than Plant-life's recent campaign, and I always extend it into Just Grow June as well, as I watch the 2nd law of thermodynamics bring glorious disorder. It's good...
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Will the DfE see sense?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published report, setting out its proposals for achieving ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions that gas boilers should be banned from 2025 to combat climate change, and achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the century. It...
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Environmental Education in Derbyshire
In early 1983, HMI published A Survey of Environmental Education in Some Derbyshire Primary Schools [ S910/7/011 143/83 DS 1982 ]. This was based on schools visits to 13 schools "of varying size, type and catchment area [which were all] ... known...
