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Part II: Rivers Are Perfect for Sustainability Education. Here's How.

Sep 13, 2019
4 min

Part II: Rivers Are Perfect for Sustainability Education. Here's How.

This article follows on from Part I: Rivers Are Perfect for Teaching Sustainability. Here's Why! Background The living things found in a river or stream depend largely on limiting factors (e.g. turbidity, temperature, pH level and dissolved oxygen) and the long-term environmental conditions. If water quality is poor due to human activity for instance, certain freshwater species simply won't be able to survive and reproduce, and so won't be present in the river habitat during

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Forget Grades! Educate for Human Potential Instead.

"Nature is Boring. I Want My Smart Phone Back!"

Feb 4, 2019
5 min

"Nature is Boring. I Want My Smart Phone Back!"

Sometimes the older children become, it seems the less interested they become in nature and the outdoors. As an experiential educator in an international school setting, I work with children of all ages and nationalities and this trend can be difficult to ignore. Hit adolescence and it becomes harder and harder to engage young people in outdoor and environmental learning. And that's what prompted me to write this blog post. Related Posts Let's Scrap Environmental Education &

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Throw-away Christmas Cheer! What Are We Teaching Our Kids?

Dec 13, 2018
3 min

Throw-away Christmas Cheer! What Are We Teaching Our Kids?

For most, Christmas is a time of giving, spending time with family and celebration. Traditionally, it's a celebration of Christ's birth by spreading joy and giving to those less fortunate than ourselves. The story of Santa Claus was inspired by St Nicholas, a wealthy Bishop who lived in the fourth century in a place called Myra (now within modern-day Turkey). He had a reputation for helping the poor by giving secret gifts to people who needed it most. The fact that the storie

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Fear of Liability Must Not Stop Us Getting Children Outdoors!

Dec 10, 2018
5 min

Fear of Liability Must Not Stop Us Getting Children Outdoors!

In recent years, I've actively sought global opportunities to work in outdoor and experiential education roles for youth in various countries including in the UK, Germany, US, Canada & Thailand. Thankfully, this has given me a unique perspective in terms of the risk management culture in outdoor education within these diverse countries, with a focus on international school settings and residential outdoor education centers. In my view, risk tolerance is an urgent issue in edu

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Top 5 Ways to Empower Children to Tackle the 21st Century Environmental Burden We're Leaving Them

Dec 5, 2018
4 min

Top 5 Ways to Empower Children to Tackle the 21st Century Environmental Burden We're Leaving Them

Environmental Education (EE) in the context of sustainable development is essential for the next generation to build a brighter future in the 21st Century. It's vital in order to meet the sizable (and growing) environmental challenges we face. What's certain is that today's youth must gain deeper levels of environmental understanding and ecological literacy, through carefully constructed education which begins in pre-school, and is not only integrated, but intimately interwov

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