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!
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 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
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 Trócaire 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
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!
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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