21st Century ‘Green’ Skills
Award winning film maker and human right campaigner Leslee Udwin talks about Think Equal’s vision for a safe, free and equal world. Our mission is to achieve a global system [...]
A Forest of ‘Green’ Skills in Bath…
Dr Penny Hay talks about the free creative learning programme being delivered in Bath that supports a reimagining of an urban future deeply connected to nature. Forest of Imagination is [...]
Change and Our Shared World
By Ann Finlayson Change – what is it good for? Absolutely everything! How often have you heard someone say they hate change? Maybe you say it yourself? But the truth [...]
Education for Sustainable Fashion
Textiles student Mia Venus McClafferty reflects on what needs to change for a more Sustainable future in Fashion Almost a year has now passed since I received my A-level qualification [...]
Our Shared World Won’t Wait…..
SEEd is proud to be co-chairing the Our Shared World coalition of organisations, supporting the implementation of SDG4.7 in education in England. Here, Ellis Brooks from Quakers In Britain, who [...]
Julie Ward’s Letter to the Earth
Julie Ward is an activist poet and theatre maker who became an accidental politician in 2014 by getting elected to represent the North West of England in the European Parliament. [...]
Education as if People and Planet Matter
A personal reflection on Education by Associate Sociology Professor, SEEd Trustee and Mother, Katy Wheeler July 2019: I can feel my baby softly nudging me as I share a cold [...]
Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 and what it means for the purpose of education
There has not been a purpose of education written since the beginning of state education in England in 1870. With the overwhelming changes that all societies are experiencing and fearful [...]
Education for Sustainability – the work of the Marine Conservation Society and protecting marine places
The first thing we say to educate the public about our seas is that they are big – about 650,000km2 bigger than the UK land area that is a measly [...]
Biomimicry – Learning from the Natural World
Richard Dawson Nature has evolved over 3.8 billion years into a model of sustainability, offering a guide for our own human endeavours to live in harmony with natural cycles and [...]
Systems thinking with the SDGs in the classroom
Meryl Batchelder Many of you may know about the study by the late, great Ken Robinson on divergent thinking which asked: ‘how many uses can you think of for a [...]
A Curriculum for People and Planet
By Jenny Rhodes Today’s schoolchildren will be adults in the 2030s, and will probably face serious issues due to the climate and ecological emergency. Are we equipping them with the [...]
Getting to grips with the Whole Institution Approach to Sustainability
UNESCO SDG4.7: by 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender [...]
The Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill
Emeritus Professor at Bath University, Bill Scott writes on The Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill to be presented to the House of Lords. An Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) [...]
A “curriculum for life” – how a few changes to the education system could make all the difference.
by Tom Wickham-Bassett There are common sentiments amongst young people that “school doesn’t teach you to do tax returns,” or “you will never need to use the Pythagorean theorem,” and [...]
Shaping the Future – Why I’m fighting for Sustainability and Climate Education
by Olive Coxon, age 17. I’ve always found comfort at school and through learning, knowing that I am being taught things that I need to know. But when it comes [...]
Green at Fifteen? – What schools can do to support the climate.
Read the OECD report into how 15 year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience Never before have the stakes been so high for the role of science education in shaping [...]
Exploring the Impacts of Student-Led Sustainability Projects with Secondary School Students and Teachers
By Paul Vare 'Recognising that schools wishing to nurture student agency require a culture that supports the professional agency of teachers, has implications for policy, which in turn requires compelling [...]
