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The responsibilities of schools towards the goals and their learners
As part of my reflections on last week's St George's House consultation, here are a few thoughts about schools and the SDGs: If we’re to think about what schools might do in relation to the goals, it’s important to think...
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Daly and Meadows – better than a wedding cake
I wrote yesterday about the Stockholm Resilience Centre's disappointing wedding cake model which attempts to create a convincing case for viewing the SDGs as a coherent whole. I say disappointing because it fundamentally misrepresents the human society – human economy relationship...
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Problems with the Stockholm Wedding Cake model
The St George's House consultation was valuable in many ways. One unexpected outcome for me was coming across (thanks, Paul Vare) the Stockholm Resilience Centre's Wedding Cake model of the SDGs. It's here. The Centre says: This model changes our...
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A global educator's responsibilities and their limits
The St. George's House consultation on the SDGs is over. It was stimulating. It seems clear to me that young people can be helped to think about global issues at at early age, and then to be helped to build...
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The two St George's House propositions
I am still at St George's House, Windsor, at a consultation about young people and the sustainable development goals. This is, amongst other things, considering two propositions: Goal-related learning by students can help increase the likelihood that the goals will...
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How young people experience the SDGs across the UK
As I noted yesterday, I am at St George's House, Windsor, at a consultation with a focus on young people and the sustainable development goals. As an introduction to four presentations (from across the UK) about what they are trying to achieve when...
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The background to the St George's House consultation on the SDGs
As I noted earlier today, I'll be at St George's House Windsor this week at a consultation on young people and the SDGs. This is what the background paper to the consultation has to say. 2015 saw the Paris Agreement and the...
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Talking about the sustainable development goals
I shall be at St George's House, Windsor on Thursday and Friday, at a consultation with a focus on young people and the sustainable development goals. I have worked with Jamie Agombar from the NUS to organise this. There will be...
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Margrethe Vestager
If I have a contemporary hero it would be Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner for competition who is proving a scourge of those bent on global dominance; that is, the IT mega corporations. They may not pay their taxes, but they...
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Remember to press 'record' if the Inquisition comes calling
That's the lesson the admirable Lindsay Shepherd teaches us despite her ordeal at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She's a teaching assistant (and grad student) who was taking a first-year communication studies class on pronouns. In doing this, she used a short...
