{"id":8003,"date":"2021-11-09T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T08:08:57","slug":"the-dfes-new-environmental-education-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/11\/09\/the-dfes-new-environmental-education-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"The DfE's new environmental education strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DfE has launched its new environmental education strategy for consultation. \u00a0Actually, they called it a (draft) Sustainability &amp; Climate Change\u00a0strategy (for the education &amp; children\u2019s services systems). \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/1031454\/SCC_DRAFT_Strategy.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are 5 mentions of curriculum, but none of them promise to reform \/ extend \/ change \/develop \/ \u00a0... it. \u00a0So, the Nick Gibb line that what the national curriculum says is adequate as it gives schools a direction and a sound base to build on, remains. \u00a0Of course, it was never really Gibb's line, it was the DfE's; Gibb was only the reliably on-message mouthpiece. \u00a0The prior emphasis on the curriculum being \"knowledge-rich\" also remains, as so it should. \u00a0After all, who'd want what young people learn to be knowledge-poor?<\/p>\n<div>Inevitably there's an emphasis on reducing schools' carbon output, and on green jobs. \u00a0The primary climate science \/ nature emphasis in primary schools was unexpected (by me at any rate). \u00a0Does this reflect a disquiet about primary science, I wonder. \u00a0There's no mention of the natural history GCSE which has to be significant you\u2019d have thought. \u00a0There's a virtual nature park but it's not clear how it will work but it's a welcome emphasis on nature \/ biodiversity. \u00a0The Climate Leaders Award (based on the Duke of E\u2026) might be worthwhile, but it will need huge resourcing if it's to be as prestigious as the DoE, as I'm sure we'd all like it to be. \u00a0Then there\u2019s a big emphasis on teacher CPD and on resources. \u00a0Whose, I wonder.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anyway, From now to March, DfE says that a user group of sector representatives and a group of young people, reflecting a diverse range of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, will bring together feedback on this strategy from those they represent. Youth representation will be included. \u00a0A representative of this user group will sit on DfE\u2019s Sustainability and Climate Change Board. \u00a0The DfE will \"work closely with these groups and with delivery partners across government to refine and build on the strategy ahead of publication of a final version in April 2022.\"<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A time to get involved.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DfE has launched its new environmental education strategy for consultation. \u00a0Actually, they called it a (draft) Sustainability &amp; Climate Change\u00a0strategy (for the education &amp; children\u2019s services systems). \u00a0You can read it here. There are 5 mentions of curriculum, but...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}