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‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...
Continue reading blog postThis research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...
Continue reading blog postCatherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...
Continue reading blog postRecent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....
Continue reading blog postDr Jennifer Rudd is a Senior Lecturer in Circular Economy in the School of Management. She has previously worked on technological solutions to climate change from a chemistry and engineering...
Jack completed an MSc in Outdoor Education at the University of Edinburgh in January 2020. He began a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in October 2020 researching the influence of mobile devices...
Catherine Dunn is a postgraduate student studying an MSc in outdoor education. Catherine has been heavily involved in climate activism at Edinburgh University and has worked extensively with both...
Richard Millican is senior lecturer in education at the University of Gloucestershire. He has worked in many different educational environments in this country and abroad and has a longstanding...
In August 2018, Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Swedish Parliament, protesting against her government’s inaction on the climate crisis. Since then, she has sparked a...
Continue reading blog postClimate change is arguably the most pressing educational imperative of modern times, yet in our universities and communities – and within BERA itself – it remains relatively underdiscussed....
I am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the BERA Council representing BERA members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...
Continue reading blog postAs educators, we are cognizant of the mantra ‘education is an investment in the future’. Our future, quite frankly, is looking bleak in terms of our inaction in the face of the impending...
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