Outputs (11)

Climate change and sustainability education in India and the place for arts-based practice: Reflections from East Kolkata Wetlands (2022)
Journal Article

In 2019 India was ranked seventh most affected nation by climate change, yet 65 per cent of the Indian population had not heard of climate change. India’s revised National Education Policy mentions climate change and environmental issues as part of i... Read More about Climate change and sustainability education in India and the place for arts-based practice: Reflections from East Kolkata Wetlands.

Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Children are unheard voices within the COVID-19 pandemic. We are unaware how intersections of complex factors in specific social settings have impacted their perceptions and are determining what ‘recovery’ means. ‘Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Loc... Read More about Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’.

Why children need to read about plants at a time of climate change (2022)
Journal Article

We begin developing our relationship with and for Nature during childhood, and over the last 20 years research has advanced our understanding of human relationships with Nature. However, a focus on human-animal relationships dominates environmental u... Read More about Why children need to read about plants at a time of climate change.

Environmental education and the new curriculum for Wales: An evaluation of how a family of schools in a rural area used a theory of change approach (2022)
Journal Article

This paper evaluates an Environmental Education programme where the barriers and opportunities for professional development, access to specialist resources, provision through technology and partnership are considered within the context of Wales and t... Read More about Environmental education and the new curriculum for Wales: An evaluation of how a family of schools in a rural area used a theory of change approach.

Learning To Live With Fog Monsters (2022)
Book

This story book, its concept and storyline were co-produced by Luci Gorell Barnes, Verity Jones*, Lindsey McEwen* and Amanda Webber* with contributions from Sara Williams*, Toity Deave*, Laura Hobbs*, Deepak Gopinath* and Laura Fogg-Rogers* (*Univer... Read More about Learning To Live With Fog Monsters.

Sustainable threads. Using immersive narratives to teach about the climate, wellbeing and social impacts of fast fashion (2022)
Journal Article

In this article Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education at the University of the West of England, Ruth Millett, Learning and Engagement Officer at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, which is run by Birmingham Museums Trust, and Dr Jessic... Read More about Sustainable threads. Using immersive narratives to teach about the climate, wellbeing and social impacts of fast fashion.

The power of picture books: A pandemic tool to recovery (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper draws on 18 months of interdisciplinary research in partnership with Schools and Early Years settings across some of the most socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, funded by the AHRC. The interdisciplinary team undertook an art based re... Read More about The power of picture books: A pandemic tool to recovery.

Teaching about the hidden climate threat of UK drought (2022)
Journal Article

Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will draw on ongoing research funded by AHRC which works with 5 schools / Early Year centres in some of the most socio-economically deprived areas of Bristol. It will reflect on how we have used maps as a way of exploring children's experi... Read More about Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds.

Making science work in the new curriculum for Wales (2022)
Journal Article

Verity Jones outlines how the Darwin Experience has helped to provide scientific experiences that support the new Curriculum for Wales