All Outputs (41)

Climate change education in schools post COP26 (2021)
Digital Artefact

In this blog Verity Jones shares her thoughts about the challenges facing secondary schools post COP26 . She notes the importance of not only a whole curricula approach, but an integrated school approach with an eye on supporting students and staff w... Read More about Climate change education in schools post COP26.

Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country (2021)
Journal Article

Engaging young citizens with drought risk and positive water behaviours is essential in domestic water demand management within the wider climate crisis. This paper evaluates a new research-informed, picture book—‘DRY: The Diary of a Water Superhero’... Read More about Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country.

An integrated systems approach to food (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores how primary geography teachers can situate themselves in an integrated food system approach. It highlights critical issues relating to food and education and reflects on how other schools in the UK, Denmark and Czech Republic are... Read More about An integrated systems approach to food.

What have we learnt planning for inclusive online pedagogies in primary classrooms (2021)
Digital Artefact

Young people and climate change: Hear our voice (2021)
Report

The consequences of climate change are becoming part of people’s everyday worlds as they live with increased risks of drought, flood and wildfires. Such conditions bring with them associated difficulties in food production, disease control and conser... Read More about Young people and climate change: Hear our voice.

Integrating sustainable food in school systems (2021)
Digital Artefact

Part of a special series about embedding sustainability in Education, this blog considers the place of edible insects as part of school food systems.

Integrating food into the curriculum (2021)
Journal Article

This article explores how integrating food as a whole school approach can support learning and teaching in primary science. It reflects on a two year, international study with educational settings in the UK, Denmark and Czech Republic.

Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
Journal Article

This article considers how primary science curriculum planning can be framed around the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). As a case study it presents how learning about insects on a bug hunt in the playground can quickly transform into more cont... Read More about Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom.

Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects (2020)
Journal Article

Here I outline how a four-stage approach framed classroom discussion around the global food crisis and its associated socio-economic and environmental impacts. In the discussion pupils considered whether they would be prepared to eat insects rather t... Read More about Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects.

Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens (2020)
Journal Article

Insects as food is not a new idea. In the Old Testament’s book of Leviticus a list of permissible foods is given; insects including, locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers are included. Earlier still, the Romans and Greeks were known to dine on beetle l... Read More about Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens.

‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools (2020)
Journal Article

Supporting young people with global crises mitigation strategies is essential, yet loaded with ethical dilemmas for the educator. This study explores whether young people will make ethical decisions regarding the sustainability of food choice in scho... Read More about ‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools.

Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits (2020)
Journal Article

Western European populations are being encouraged to reconsider their diets in light of population growth and the associated intensification of farming systems. In addition, health concerns associated with diets high in sugar, salt and saturated fat... Read More about Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits.

Discovery approach to fieldwork (2020)
Journal Article

The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought (2020)
Journal Article

The children in our classrooms are bombarded with doom and gloom stories about the state of the world: food poverty, war, carbon emissions, water shortages… . Fellow geographers, David Hicks (2018) and Hilary Whitehouse (2018), remind us that we shou... Read More about The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought.

Celebrating ethical fashion (2019)
Journal Article

Adapting our diets for global climate change: Could eating bugs really be an answer? (2019)
Journal Article

This article suggests different ways of looking at the global food crisis in the classroom and asks if we can ask our students to consider making radical changes to their diets.

A potent mix: When science and poetry combine (2018)
Journal Article

Teaching science through the unexpected route of poetry can establish new and interesting understandings for learners. This article considers how to merge these two disciplines.

After PISA: Real approaches to science in Wales (2017)
Journal Article

Following the media response to poor PISA results in Wales, this article considers the role of private business and how they can support education. Using a case study from Pembrokeshire, Wales, it is argued that if we want investment in education, we... Read More about After PISA: Real approaches to science in Wales.

Using geographical knowledge: From floods to deserts, via nappies (2017)
Journal Article

Considering how geography is an ideal vehicle for embedding real world literacy, numeracy and science knowledge in preperation for SATs through a case study.

Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society (2004)
Journal Article

In this paper I illustrate how an increased demand for the communication of environmental knowledges in contemporary society can be understood using ideas purported by the risk society thesis. In order to deepen these connections and understandings I... Read More about Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society.