The place of education in the government’s draft sustainability and climate change strategy.

Citation

Rushton E & Dunlop L (2022) The place of education in the government’s draft sustainability and climate change strategy.. BERA Blog [Blog post] 02.02.2022. https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/the-place-of-education-in-the-governments-draft-sustainability-and-climate-change-strategy

Abstract
First Paragraph: Recent research on climate change education in England indicates an absence of policy and pro-environmental ambition, and obstruction in relation to both environmental sustainability in general, and climate change specifically (Greer et al., 2021). At present, scant attention is paid to climate change and environmental sustainability in the national curriculum, Ofqual subject content, the education inspection framework, the initial teacher training core content framework and the early career framework. This contrasts with international commitments to, for example, target 13.3 of sustainable development goal 13 (‘build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change’ [sdg-tracker.org, no date]),and the conclusions of the meeting of environment and education ministers at COP26 (2021) which included commitments to the integration and mainstreaming of sustainability and climate change into policy – including policies relating to curriculum, teacher education, assessment and teacher education.

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Professor Lizzie Rushton

Professor of Education, Education