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Thursday 14 December 2017

Climate change: learning resources from Sustainability Frontiers

'Sustainability Frontiers is an international alliance of sustainability and global educators', with its main centre in Weston, Sidmouth. It is particularly interested in education issues around climate change. Here are some extracts from its latest newsletter:

TRANSGRESSIVE EDUCATION FOR A PLANETARY ETHIC OF PEACE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Sustainability FrontiersLinkedIn logofacebookFollow us on twitter header

Sustainability Frontiers engages in research and innovation in the broad fields of education for sustainability, transformative environmental education and global education, transgressing dominant assumptions and current orthodoxies as it seeks to foster learner empowerment and action. It places particular emphasis on climate change, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding and their implications for the nature and directions of sustainability education.


Greetings!

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Pictured here is a daffodil, potent and heartwarming symbol of English springtime. This daffodil came into bloom just over a week ago, on 27 November 2017. It is being followed by a procession of daffodils in yellow bud. In recent years we in our English south coast clime have seen daffodils in bloom for the Winter Solstice but this, for us, breaks all records. Its appearance elicits conflicting emotions; joy, on the one hand, at seeing a flower of sublime beauty lighting up dark, dank winter days; a sense of dread, on the other, at the creeping advance of climate breakdown.

‘Climate breakdown’ not ‘climate change’ more and more feels the right term. We are facing the dislocation of nature, loss of species and the disruption of ecosystems and of food chains. Human populations in many parts of the world are facing life-threatening food security threats triggering climate migration on a huge scale. Climate change education - aimed at mitigating the drivers of climate change while helping those to adapt who are on the frontline in suffering its effects  – becomes more and more urgent.



Climate Change Learning Resource Review

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A new review article by David Selby has just been published in Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, Autumn 2017. The article reviews the highly innovative Creating Futures: 10 Lessons Inspiring Inquiry, Creativity & Cooperation in Response to Climate Change for Senior Primary Classrooms, jointly published by TrĂ³caire and the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education of Dublin City University in 2016.
For details, click here
For the review, click here.






Teaching Teens About Climate Change

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A new Green Teacher (Canada) e-book, Teaching Teens About Climate Change, edited by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn has just been published. The publication offers a rich treasure chest of wonderful ideas for climate change learning and teaching. We are delighted that our own article and activities, 'Climate Change Learning: Unleashing Blessed Unrest as the Heating Happens’, as originally published in Green Teacher, Issue 94, Fall 2011, are included in the book (pp. 8-23).
For details of Teaching Teens About Climate Change, click here.
For the original 2011 Green Teacher article, click here.






Place-based Nature Learning: Best Practice Wanted!

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The Sustainability Frontiers team of David Selby and Fumiyo Kagawa are in process of researching and authoring a book on place-based nature learning covering the learning of both children and adults.
Varieties of nature learning being covered in the book include: localized nature-connected learning; nature-grounded sustainability learning; localized climate change education; re-wilding learning; localized biodiversity learning; learning alternative life ways; alternative forms of food production; celebration, ritual and symbol in earth-connected learning.
We are also looking for evidence of child disconnection from the natural world and of ways in which teachers and other significant adults are working to overcome that disconnection.
The team, in short, is looking for examples of best practice whether in rural or urban contexts. If you have practice to share do get in touch and let’s have a conversation! To contact the SF team, click here.

Bulletin 20, 11 December 2017

Sustainability Frontiers - ‘Go out on a limb… That’s where the blossom grows’ – Tom Forsyth, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Scotland *

The group took part in last year's Climate Week:
Vision Group for Sidmouth - Climate Week in Sidmouth: The Climate Variety Show: update
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