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Climate (change) educators help the DfE make its point
My comments last week about the latest iteration of the DfE straight bat reminded me that NAEE recently featured a story about climate education in a primary school in North Tyne which is working with the creators of the eduCCate...
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A 3 stage climate change curriculum
I was criticised the other day because one of my posts was seen as unhelpful. It was a fair cop, but then not all my comments in the blog are meant to be helpful. This one is though ... Now...
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Greta the musical
Someone who should, perhaps, have known better persuaded Greta Thunberg to deliver her message (old folks have failed, politicians have failed, the Earth is burning, woe is us, I don't do humour, etc) to a musical background provided by The...
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How green is my university
Today's THE, in noting that climate change will "likely top the international news agenda later this month when young people across the world walk out of schools, colleges and universities ahead of a crucial summit on the subject being held...
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Greta refuses to zoom
I see that the saintly, and surely soon-to-be ennobled, Greta Thunberg, with her dad, has made it to the Americas in a flash boat so that she can keep up her no-flying promise. This is no ordinary boat, of course,...
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More backward defence strokes from the DfE
I see in today's NAEE weekly update that DfE was asked over the Summer whether it had any plans to require teacher training institutions to cover sustainability issues. DfE said: "... there are no plans to amend the Teachers’ Standards....
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School climate strikes in Germany
An NAEE weekly round up in August provided a link to a long article in spiegel-on-line about how the school climate strikes in Germany have evolved over the past year. There was a week-long summer conference in Dortmund at the...
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The history of humans in zoos
As I may have mentioned, I'm no great fan of zoos; at worst they seems little more than prisons where humans gawp at the inmates, not all of whom are kept in decent conditions; at best, well, ... I never...
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The fight to build a better, happier, safer world must include open borders
So says Ruth London, a campaigner on climate and energy justice in a recent Ecologist: A good friend told me that however hopeless things feel we have to keep fighting, even if there is just one chance in a million of preventing runaway...
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Climate activism education
I see from a recent NAEE weekly webwatch that there’s a climate activism education event in London on Saturday October 12th. It's sponsored by NUS, UCU and NEU. This conference is aimed at "workers and students from across the world of...
