Letting children learn flexibly and organically creates rounder, more educated human beings, says Mike Fortune-Wood
… Fortune-Wood | 15th March 2009 Ethical Living Education School Home School House Humans Beings Education Children Society … human beings, says Mike Fortune-Wood Home education is nothing at all like school. There …
Weaning ourselves off carbon will mean a profound change in every aspect of daily life, every sector of society and every job. For that to happen we need a new mindset and a new set of tools...
… Ecologist guide to green skills and education Eifion Rees | 2nd February 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Education Skills Ecologist Guide To Green Skills And Education turbineengineer.jpg Weaning …
The National Union of Students has a rich history of ethical and environmental work, but our £5 million Students’ Green Fund is undoubtedly our biggest achievement for the sustainability agenda yet, says Dannie Grufferty.
… NUS granted £5,000,000 to invest in higher education sustainability Dannie Grufferty | 16th May 2013 Ethical Living Education Society green vid.jpg The National … been awarded the funding by HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) to …
Weaning ourselves off carbon will mean a profound change in every aspect of daily life, every sector of society and every job. For that to happen we need a new mindset and a new set of tools...
… Ecologist guide to green skills and education Eifion Rees | 2nd February 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Education Skills Ecologist Guide To Green Skills And Education turbineengineer.jpg Weaning …
How do children learn? Is it through testing or open-ended class discussions aimed at piquing curiosity? Lizzie Overton, head teacher at Lewes New School, is spearheading a new approach to education
… New School, is spearheading a new approach to education When Lizzie Overton first became a … teachers: to reach the children who needed an education most. She pursued her career as a … until her frustration with her son's own education caused her to reconsider her purpose …
As a society, we are strangely disconnected from the Earth, writes Stephan Harding. It's as if we were aliens placed here to prod and poke with our scientific instruments whilst feeling no sense of meaning, belonging or closeness to her ancient crumpled surface or rich, teeming biodiversity - a state of mind that a forthcoming course at Schumacher College aims to reverse.
… Harding | 28th April 2016 Ethical Living Education Ecology Science daisies-cut.jpg As a … teaching is an essential component of this educational effort. A key idea that people … through possible solutions. But this kind of educational approach on its own is, I believe, …
Rebecca is an ordinary woman with extraordinary ambitions, inspiring people all over the world and making 'Shift Happen' through her charity that creates free educational films
… Happen' through her charity that creates free educational films You have just returned from … Even at just eight years old, I felt the education system had failed me. I would go to … solutions to the world's problems. With my education focusing on sustainable development …
Earthship Brighton, an award-winning off-grid community centre set in an organic farm within the South Downs National Park, has hosted hundreds of events and inspired tens of thousands of visitors over the last decade, writes Phil Moore, demonstrating green technologies and energy-efficient living. But now it's in need of a refit.
… unique community centre hosts environmental education for schoolchildren and courses in … once more, and expand our environmental education and training programme. The idea is … once more, and expand our environmental education and training programme. …
We are looking for agents of change and leaders of the future, who will use the unique learning experience we can provide at Schumacher College, to make a more sustainable and equitable world
… 30th January 2012 Ethical Living Green Living Education Skills Ecologist Guide To Green … at Schumacher College “If still more education is to save us, it would have to be education of a different kind: an education …
School buildings, food, waste - even the curriculum itself should all support a connection to, and appreciation for, the environment. Here are some resources to get you started
… for school journeys. School activities and education initiatives Roots & Shoots is the Jane Goodall Institute's Education Programme for young people. Its … The Globe Programme is an environmental education project linking nearly 600 schools …
When the classroom is the outdoors the possibilities are endless. Phoebe Doyle explores the practicalities, the realities and the huge potentials of the outdoor nursery concept
… | 26th July 2011 Activism Schools Outdoors Education Nature Wildlife Environmental Education 1new001.jpg Climbing the walls: kids … another is the default position at home, some educationalists are yearning to set children …
Stressed out and living for the weekend? Breaking free may be easier than you thought...
… See: www.transaction.net www.ratical.org Home education Disillusionment with a targetdriven education system and over-filled classrooms … only 0.5 per cent of children in fee-paying education. Educating your children at home …
The path to many green careers begins as a student. Here are the Ecologist's tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to go
… Science & Technology Society Environmental Education Climate Change Garden Organic Eden … tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to … your true calling. But with the price of an education set to go up and up, you need to …
The path to many green careers begins as a student. Here are the Ecologist's tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to go
… Science & Technology Society Environmental Education Climate Change Garden Organic Eden … tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to … your true calling. But with the price of an education set to go up and up, you need to …
Proven top tips on communicating your issues effectively from one of the UK's most successful campaigners...
… a different channel. Campaigning is not education Campaigning involves stimulating … 1 Comparing a campaign model (left) with an education model (right) In contrast, education expands awareness of options and …
Don’t despair if this weekend turns out to be a washout; the UK’s natural history museums are the perfect place to spend a rainy afternoon. Gervase Poulden has five of the best
… throughout the museum. According to museum educational assistant Rachel Smith, the … countryside in 1824. The museum has an entire education team dedicated to helping children … curriculum for sciences. The success of these educational activities was underlined earlier …
The newly opened Langley science academy in Slough ticks just about every box - airy, light, modern interiors make for good learning environments, and the school building is stuffed full of eco features
… A school built for green education The Ecologist Positive TV | 4th December 2009 Activism Society Education Culture Change Sustainability …
A journey through higher education initiatives re-imagining what it is to learn and to be human.....
… Living enlivened.jpg A journey through higher education initiatives re-imagining what it is … Blackfoot ways of knowing in a higher education institution. How did we end up … academic jobs and visit a number of higher education initiatives internationally that …
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing, must be fought off.
… it Marc Brightman | 10th March 2015 Activism Education Indigenous Peoples Society … open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who know the price … seen as 'subversive'? The noises made by the Education Secretary about academic 'rigour' …
To celebrate 25 years at the forefront of environmental education, Schumacher College are launching a new short course programme: Soul, Spirit and Story.
… 2015 | 9th December 2014 Ethical Living Education Courses Schumacher College To … 25 years at the forefront of environmental education, Schumacher College are launching a … near Totnes, Devon – a leading centre in “education as if the Earth matters” – is …
Working alongside the people of Ethiopia, WaterAid is helping bring clean water and safe sanitation to drought-hit areas, as Leonora Oppenheim discovers
… the community. The sharing of information and education is the foundation model by which … a key example of how simple sanitation education can easily be replicated throughout … the community and beyond. While this education model is sustainable, unfortunately …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… meters of greenhouses for vegetables, an educational centre and a kitchen for food … is the practice We invite school groups, home education groups, pre school groups, …
According to Trish Riley, it’s absurd to think that individuals can save the planet - only big business has the clout to make a real difference. Utter nonsense or perfectly sensible? Jeff Holman caught up with her to find out
… using her unique brand of ‘environmental education’ to win over the 300 million … information. That’s my role: environmental education.’ JH: So what made you begin your own environmental education? TR: ‘Well I had the good fortune to …
Ten years ago, Mo and Dave fell in love, writes Helen Leavey - with a ruinous but romantic water mill in Yorkshire. It was the beginning of a fabulous restoration adventure, and the mill is now an exemplar of renewable energy generation and a thriving education centre.
… 3rd May 2014 Ethical Living Renewables Energy Education Building UK first-sight-2003.jpg Ten … of renewable energy generation and a thriving education centre. A passion for drama is to be … Georgian watermill into an environmental education centre, generating hydro-electricity …