Secure the foundations then build – why it is a good thing that OFSTED aren’t yet assessing schools on sustainability
By Dr Morgan Phillips, Head of Education and Youth Engagement, Global Action Plan On May 31st, the Department for Education (DfE) will release two new ITT’s for contracts relating to [...]
The transformation of education? – Four desiderata critical to real change
By Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, University of Plymouth and IAU Senior Fellow This blog was first published as an article in Horizons, vol 27, no 2. pp21-22, [...]
COP and climate change education: what happened at COP27 and what happens next?
Link to original post: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2022/11/23/climate-change-education-what-happened-at-cop27-and-what-happens-next/ Dr Kate Greer, Prof. Nicola Walshe Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society Corresponding author: kate.greer@ucl.ac.uk So, [...]
Don’t Do Sustainability
By Brett Girven, Principal at The Arbor School Dubai "Brett contacted me probably 4 or so years ago. The Arbor School in Dubai was newly built and with an environmental [...]
Is carbon offsetting merely a form of greenwashing?
“You may be aware of the current discussion and controversies around ‘greenwashing’. Well we are delighted to post a journalistic piece from a young person, Claudia Goodman, who is an [...]
The slow road to transforming education
SEEd Director Ann Finlayson takes a look at progress on education for sustainability. It is the year of COP 26, and less than 2 months before COP [...]
What would a meaningful application of the new DfE Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy look like?
Dr Leigh Hoath is an Associate Professor at Leeds Trinity University. She leads Science Education in the Institute of Childhood and Education. The launch of the DfE’s Sustainability and Climate [...]
Learning and Change…
New SEEd Chair of Trustees Cathy d'Abreu reflects on the challengesof bringing about positive change. Drumbeats for change There are so many drums beating for change globally that we can be [...]
A strategy for climate change education, but what next?
Ann Finlayson, Executive Chair SEEd I was thinking after the launch at the Natural History Museum for DfE’s Strategy for Sustainability and Climate Change that many, many people have views [...]
