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New book published today
As I may have mentioned, Paul Vare and I have a new book published today: Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development: a history of ideas You can buy it here at an immodest price. Here's the blurb: "This is an introduction to...
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Remembering Sean Carson
I recently read parts of Environmental Education: principles and practice, published by Edward Arnold in 1978, and edited by Sean McBride Carson. Odd, you might think, given its venerable 33 years ageing on my bookshelves, but I dived into it for...
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Permanent educational scarring of disadvantaged children
25% of school students ~2.5 million children had no schooling or tutoring during lockdown, an LSE Centre for Economic Performance study reports. Further, the study adds, 74% of private school students had full days of teaching compared to 38% of...
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It's the exam boards, stupid
As slogans go, "It's the exam boards, stupid" ranks up there in the imbecility stakes with the AUT's pay-campaign from the 1980s: Rectify the Anomaly which unsurprisingly failed to attract the government's attention, or public sympathy. But this does seem...
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Teaching 6th formers about racism and inequality
I'm glad I don't have responsibility today for teaching students in schools about racism and inequality. I don't think in all my years of teaching in schools and HE that I ever did very much of that, save through trying to...
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Replacing capitalism in school
The cyber waves have been boiling recently with dire warnings about England's descent into fascism because of guidance the Department for Education [DfE] recently published. Really! Some people should get out more, read some Nazi or DDR history, or talk...
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Social justice in Scottish teaching
The draft Professional Standards for teachers in Scotland now include a section which highlights the professional values of social justice, trust and respect and integrity as being at the heart of what it means to become, to be and to...
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Environmental education in England 1960 to 1979 – a pen picture
In the book Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development: a history of ideas – written by myself and Paul Vare, and published by Routledge/Greenleaf on the 12th of November 2020 – we present a number of time-line sketches of some of the significant events...
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Settler colonialists, Google docs, and Ofscoff intrusion
I was struck listening into the NAAEE research symposium by references to that fact that North American countries are based on settler-colonial regimes that took the land from indigenous peoples. It seems to have become almost obligatory to apologise for...
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Are you pro-blue or pro-green?
This is not an impertinent enquiry into your politics, but a question about your stance on the pros and cons of the putative hydrogen economy. Do you want blue hydrogen or green hydrogen, or maybe no hydrogen at all? Green...
