Sustainable Education

If you teach Biodiversity as part of your Sustainability studies these are great images and videos of threatened species around the world. Suitable for 5 to 16 year olds, ARKive's free fun-packed teaching resources cover a range of key science and biology subjects including: adaptation, food chains, Darwin and natural selection, classification, identification, conservation and biodiversity. These teaching resources include: classroom presentations, activities and handouts, teachers' notes as well as links to ARKive species profiles and scrapbooks.

"Introducing the Six R's: an approach to sustainability Many of the GCSE examination courses for D&T have included the 6R's as an approach to help student's think about sustainability within product evaluation and their own coursework."

"These downloadable cross curricular teaching resources draw on projects run by Practical Action around the world. Suitable with key stages 2 and 3 (7-14 year olds), and could be used in geography, science and citizenship lessons."

The Pedagogy of Climate Change free download of new book from GEES

"Environmental policy matters more to students so what should universities be doing to improve their green credentials? Join our panel on Friday 24 June"

"Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions"

"'There is nothing so practical as a good theory' "

"Sustainability Resources for Learning & Teaching in Higher Education" Australia

"The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly."

"Effective solutions for living sustainably in the postindustrial age require innovative frameworks and implementation strategies. Rather than tackling these global-scale problems one by one, as we are attempting for climate change, we need a far more holistic and integrated approach. The planetary boundaries framework provides such an approach. "

Osier gets started

Two years ago Harris student commissioners were given the quest of finding out how to make learning at Harris the best it could be. We were asked to become 'leaders of learning'. This meant discovering new ways of learning from experts - in our schools, across the UK and from around the world. As leaders of learning we have worked for all students at Harris so that learning can be improved for every single one of them

"You can have places where you cannot build a school. More commonly you can have schools in places where good teachers do not want to go. So what do you do? You still have children there who need and want to learn. That is the issue that Sugata Mitra is trying to solve with his latest experiment, the Granny Cloud."

"How our Teaching Changes our Thinking, and How our Thinking Changes the World: A Conversation with Jaimie Cloud" A most impressive article.

"Sustainability Education Invites Learners to Anticipate and Shape the Future: Terril Shorb interviews Stephen Sterling"

Celebrating innovation and leadership. The Climate Week Awards celebrate the UK's most innovative, effective, and ambitious organisations, communities and individuals and their outstanding efforts to combat climate change.

"With a membership of over 300 universities and colleges, the EAUC is the environmental and sustainability champion within Further and Higher Education in the UK."

"The Centre is involved with a number of green chemistry activities in the areas of research, industrial collaboration, the development of educational and promotional materials and networking both with academia and industry."

Links to policy, practice across UK and research. Conference papers since 2008 (Reports, presentations, keynote addresses and proceedings)