February 11, 2020

Is Economics in ESD?

It continues to surprise me that economics is not being considered as part of education for sustainability. After all it was always in the various diagrams […]
October 31, 2018

Future Citizens; A Whole School Approach to Sustainability

Want to make the most of your activities for the environment, sustainability and global citizenship?  A whole school approach to sustainability is your answer!   I […]
October 16, 2017

A personal view of the world of ESD

If I was still a teacher I would be very confused by now. What is ESD, LfS, GC, GLP, GL, ESDGC, CCed, LINE, LOtC etc? And […]
March 18, 2017

Do we like children?

I was completely shocked when I returned to the UK after 16 years travelling around the world. I had been in countries like Papua New Guinea, […]
February 17, 2017

You have to be in it to win it

As one of only 3 UK Key Global partners for UNESCO’s Global Action Program (GAP) we are going to Ottawa to their next meeting to continue […]
January 27, 2017

Educational labels are a smokescreen – it’s time to focus on what connects us

Have you ever wondered about the connections between environmental education, education for sustainable development and global learning or global citizenship? I know I have and have […]
October 28, 2016

SEEd’s Executive Chair, Ann Finlayson, on why we need more joined-up thinking

Great that the UK government is reporting this evidence of the impact of outdoor learning – but really not new! As a ranger in the 1980s […]
September 13, 2016

500 pages to tell you we are not on track!

I am ploughing my way through the UNESCO GEM (Global Education Monitoring) report – all 558 pages of it. And it makes for some interesting reading […]
July 13, 2016

‘We are all in this together’ – some thoughts from UNESCO

I have just returned from UNESCO Paris after a 2 day Partner Network meeting that was very informative and surprisingly useful. I know many people who […]