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The People Vs Climate Change
I've been watching The People Vs Climate Change on IPlayer. This engaging film follows members of the UK’s first ever Citizens Assembly on climate change, where 108 people – selected to represent the country – were challenged about what we should...
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Babylon Berlin
I see that unesco's latest global gabfest launches this week. It's the world conference on esd with interminable lectures and panels. I predict that there will be much grandstanding, virtue signalling and sanctimonious pontificating, and no doubt myriad folk will...
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Xiye Bastida and Antony Blinken
I used to think that being US Secretary of State was a busy job (North Korea / China / Germany / Iran / Afghanistan / Russia / Palestine / Yemen / ...), but Antony Blinken took a lot of time...
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Move on now
It's a long while since I've been moved on by the police, but it happened last month. I'd popped into my local town to support students from the Wiltshire branch of Teach the Future who'd been doing banner drops (where...
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Working together?
I wrote an article for Issue 4 of Elephant Times, the new venture from Tide~. It ended with a challenge to organisations promoting development education and global learning: – remember that tackling climate change and environmental issues is vital if all humans...
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Just about COPing
A whole bunch of educational organisations are taking the Glasgow meeting of COP26 seriously by either planning to be there to encourage delegates, by producing resources for schools, or holding webinars – or all three. This follows government calls for...
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England's been going to the dogs since the Normans came
For those who took Philip Larkin's gloomy text about the state of the country(side) too much to heart, fear not. As AN Wilson noted in his poetry of place book, England, published by Eland Books, this country has been going to the dogs from at least...
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Celebrating Earth Day with Philip Larkin
Thursday April 22nd is Earth Day 2021. 50 years ago, Philip Larkin was commissioned to write a prologue to a UK government report, How Do You Want To Live? (HMSO, 1972). This was one of the UK's papers submitted to the landmark 1972...
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Wild LIVE: Is education failing our young people and the natural world?
I listened into the latest Wild Live webinar the other day, but came away disappointed. In case you wanted a reason not to watch it, I can reveal [Spoiler Alert!] the answer to the question posed in the title is:...
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Luna, Aria, Albie, Carol and Nigel
Way back in what now almost seems another life, I used to travel round Somerset and Wiltshire watching PGCE students teach. I got into the habit of looking at class lists to note the fore-names of those being taught, and...
