APPENDIX 28
Memorandum from Kim Jackson [5]an
individual in co-operation with The National Association for Environmental
Education UK
1. Has the term Education for Sustainable
Development lost its currency? Does it have any resonance with
the general public? Has the environmental message within been
lost?
In my experience as Environmental Education
Officer in Brighton & Hove's Sustainability Team, the term
"Education for Sustainable Development" is too hard
for people to grasp—let's get back to basics and call it
Environmental Education—everyone knows what this means.
3. Does the 14-19 Working Group report,
"14-19 Curriculum and Qualification Reform", go far
enough. Will ESD be adequately represented if this report is used
as the basis for the forthcoming White Paper? What must be included
in the White Paper if progress is to be made to fully integrate
ESD into all aspects of learning, formal and informal?
Environmental Education should be compulsory
within the Nat Curriculum and not just a token gesture. Even if
it's going to remain non-examinable pupils should still have to
score a certain mark for their ROA in order to have some validity.
Environmental Education needs to be given a higher profile all
round.
November 2004
5 Kim Jackson, Environmental Education Officer, Brighton
& Hove City Council. Back
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