Blog Special Issues
Climate change is arguably the most pressing educational imperative of modern times, yet in our universities and communities – and within ½¿É«µ¼º½ itself – it remains relatively underdiscussed. This special issue of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog, edited by Kevin Smith (Cardiff University), attempts to redress that balance, featuring nine contributions from across and beyond the field of education that address how pupils, educators and educational researchers are currently responding – and should respond – to our climate crisis.
I am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Council representing ½¿É«µ¼º½ members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...
As educators, we are cognizant of the mantra ‘education is an investment in the future’. Our future, quite frankly, is looking bleak in terms of our inaction in the face of the impending...
Geologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...
At the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...
In August 2018, Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Swedish Parliament, protesting against her government’s inaction on the climate crisis. Since then, she has sparked a...
Recent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....
This research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...
‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...
Catherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...
In August 2018, Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Swedish Parliament, protesting against her government’s inaction on the climate crisis. Since then, she has sparked a...
Continue reading blog postGeologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...
Continue reading blog postAt the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...
Continue reading blog postAs educators, we are cognizant of the mantra ‘education is an investment in the future’. Our future, quite frankly, is looking bleak in terms of our inaction in the face of the impending...
Continue reading blog postI am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Council representing ½¿É«µ¼º½ members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...
Continue reading blog post‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...
Continue reading blog postCatherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...
Continue reading blog postThis research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...
Continue reading blog postRecent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....
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