{"id":6356,"date":"2015-06-17T06:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T06:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2015-06-18T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:47:00","slug":"new-guide-highlights-environment-in-the-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/06\/17\/new-guide-highlights-environment-in-the-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environmental\u00a0Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new guide highlights the environment in England's\u00a0school\u00a0curriculum. \u00a0In it, the National Association for Environmental Education [NAEE] asks: How\u00a0can\u00a0teachers respond to the challenge of teaching about pollution,\u00a0endangered species,\u00a0deforestation, climate change,\u00a0and other environmental issues?<\/em><\/p>\n

The Association has\u00a0looked at the opportunities that England's\u00a0new foundation and primary curricula\u00a0provide for teachers and children to explore a wide range of such\u00a0issues, and has written a guide for schools.<\/p>\n

In my role as\u00a0NAEE\u2019s President, I said in the Foreword to the guide:<\/p>\n

\"These same issues have been at the heart of environmental education for 60 years. Whilst some in the UK saw the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as the end of environmental education as we knew it. The UK\u2019s National Association of Environmental Education never accepted this, thinking that as the Earth\u2019s problems became more acute, environmental education would become more necessary, not less.<\/em><\/p>\n

The power of this handbook lies not just in its careful analysis of what the curriculum says, but also in its excellent exemplification of how teachers are seizing opportunities to explore them with their students.\u00a0 The beautifully illustrated case studies of practice are particularly helpful in\u00a0enabling\u00a0us\u00a0to\u00a0see what\u2019s possible in today\u2019s schools.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whilst\u00a0some\u00a0commentators continue to bemoan the lack of an explicit national curriculum emphasis\u00a0on sustainability \/\u00a0ESD, this\u00a0curriculum\u00a0guide\u00a0shows where\u00a0the new curriculum provides opportunities for\u00a0schools\u00a0to explore\u00a0the issues.<\/p>\n

NAEE Chair, Nina Hatch, said that the publication\u00a0was:<\/p>\n

\"A highly accessible guide for both Foundation, Key Stage 1 & 2 teachers to see how they can incorporate environmental issues into many of their learning outcomes.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Copies of the guide are\u00a0freely\u00a0available at the NAEE <\/span>website<\/a>. \u00a0I hope it gets a wide reading, and stimulates much activity. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Membership to NAEE is open to all teachers, schools and other educational organisations and NGOs. It is free to students. \u00a0All enquiries to: info@naee.org.uk
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