All Outputs (21)

Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food and farming (2025)
Journal Article

Despite calls for curricula to be repurposed around environmental concerns, and the related significance of food-related emissions to global climate change, consideration of the wider impacts of the global food system (positive and negative) are freq... Read More about Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food and farming.

Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure (2025)
Book

This essential book discusses what reading for pleasure is and what it is not, introducing some fundamental ideas about how we learn to read and how this process can impact on a child’s identity as a reader in classrooms that promote equality, inclus... Read More about Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure.

Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.

Immersive learning at Sparks, Bristol (2025)
Report

Sparks is a centre for sustainability, creativity and education in Bristol. It is located in a large building
formerly occupied by Marks & Spencer in the Broadmead precinct, a retail area in the city centre. Sparks
is run by a collaboration betwe... Read More about Immersive learning at Sparks, Bristol.

Women in STEM: How one county is making SPARCs (2025)
Journal Article

On International Women’s Day 2024, Pembrokeshire County Council joined Pembrokeshire College in the launch of the Sustainable Power, Renewables, and Construction (SPARC) Alliance. This new alliance promotes gender diversity in these underrepresented... Read More about Women in STEM: How one county is making SPARCs.

Beyond the eatwell guide: Learning to value what we eat (2024)
Journal Article

In this article Verity and Chris consider how food is often approached within the Primary Science Curriculum and what might be gained from focussing on where our food comes from and the implications of this to health, climate and animal welfare.

Teaching protein futures — A cross-disciplinary approach (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the role of education in addressing global challenges related to sustainable development through the lens of the agrifood system. We report on the development and testing of a flexible educational approach aimed at engaging primar... Read More about Teaching protein futures — A cross-disciplinary approach.

Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At a time of climate and ecological emergency, the importance of evaluating approaches to enhancing children’s eco-literacy cannot be overstated. This symposium explores UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 15 which relate to the protection of l... Read More about Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Schools Under the Microscope: Children measuring airborne microplastics in the classroom - Final Report (2024)
Report

Schools Under the Microscope was a citizen science project which extended the learning and development undertaken during the HOMEs Under the Microscope project by applying and adapting methods developed during HOMEs to the school context, to facilita... Read More about Schools Under the Microscope: Children measuring airborne microplastics in the classroom - Final Report.

Amplifying the invisible, the overlooked and marginalised: Methods that support children in sharing their lived experiences of racism (2024)
Digital Artefact

Context, consciousness and caution: Teachers of history in England and the exploration of sensitive and controversial issues in practice (2024)
Book Chapter

Abstract
This chapter is about primary and secondary school teachers of history in England, and how they negotiate policy in order to teach sensitive and controversial issues which feature as part of the history curriculum. We present research condu... Read More about Context, consciousness and caution: Teachers of history in England and the exploration of sensitive and controversial issues in practice.

'You educate yourself on what you should be’: Digital citizenship and young people in England and Poland (2024)
Report

If racism vanished for a day: A billboard (2024)
Physical Artefact

The RESPECT team created a billboard based on the If Racism Vanished for a Day book. Unveiled in St Werburghs, Bristol, the billboard highlights the lived racialised experiences of children, which often go unheard.

The community billboard displays... Read More about If racism vanished for a day: A billboard.

In conversation with M.G.Leanord (2024)
Journal Article

Verity Jones and Amanda Webber caught up with M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, to talk about why getting the science right in children’s fiction is so important and how this book might inspire an interest in understanding and protecting insects. Read More about In conversation with M.G.Leanord.

Animal ethics and primary schools (2024)
Journal Article

Verity Jones and Ross Cundy offer useful suggestions for school policy development and best practice on animal welfare and ethics.

‘Where do you feel it most?’ Using body mapping to explore the lived experiences of racism with 10- and 11-year-olds (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents an overview of the arts-based methodology used in a research project that aimed to explore the impact of the lived experiences of racism on 10- and 11-year-old children in the United Kingdom. The research responds to the relative... Read More about ‘Where do you feel it most?’ Using body mapping to explore the lived experiences of racism with 10- and 11-year-olds.

Learning to care about the environment through picturebooks (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter identifies picture books as a useful tool to engage children in climate change and sustainable education, and encourages teachers to recognise hopeful pedagogies in their practice in order to navigate emotional responses to the climate e... Read More about Learning to care about the environment through picturebooks.

Learning to love creatures that buzz and skuttle (2023)
Journal Article

In this article illustrator Marian Hill and Primary Science teacher educator Verity Jones discuss insect appreciation and how you can bring observational skills of mini beasts into creative practices.

If Racism Vanished for a Day (2022)
Book

This picture book was co-written and illustrated by 17 children from Bristol Schools. They think it's important to learn from children's experiences of racism so have posed simple sentences and illustrative responses for readers to critically reflect... Read More about If Racism Vanished for a Day.

How educational staff in European schools reform school food systems through ‘everyday practices’ (2022)
Journal Article

Schools are recognized as important locales for education and action to change food-related environmental and health behaviours. Research shows the potential for a whole school systems approach to integrate educational activities, food in school, and... Read More about How educational staff in European schools reform school food systems through ‘everyday practices’.