Blog
April 13, 2021
This is a difficult thing to be writing, but today is my final day working for Teach the Future. I’m leaving the campaign so that I can have a nice long summer break and make a bit more of my gap year ahead of University next year.
April 6, 2021
The campaign in Scotland said: “We believe that climate action and thus climate education policy must be at the forefront of the election as the education system is currently not preparing students and pupils for the challenges we face now and in the future nor is it empowering students to fight for climate justice. Therefore, it is essential that climate education is embedded through the curriculum and this starts with the inclusion of our asks in party manifestos. We thank the Scottish Green Party for taking this important step.”
April 6, 2021
An update on Teach The Future England's local government engagement with pledges.
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April 1, 2021
On Thursday 6th of May the Senedd elections will take place in Wales. This will be the first election where 16-18 year olds can vote, this is also an election where climate must be a priority. This election gives candidates the opportunity to show that they support educating Welsh youth on the climate and ecological emergency and ensuring they are prepared for the future they will face.
March 28, 2021
Memory is a strange thing. Our memories – memories of our lives and of the Earth as we know it – shape how we respond to different situations, influence our worldviews and dictate our competing conceptions of normalcy. How funny, then, that our memories should be so limited – that such an essential tool for grasping the nature of the world around us should be restricted to the experiences of our own lifetimes, supplemented only by the scattered anecdotes from our parents’ and grandparents’ generations and the fleeting remembrance services for the events which society deems worthy of passing on. It is said that the public memory is a fickle thing, with grand events and great happenings fading in our minds just as suddenly as they occurred. Perhaps our lives are shaped just as much by the memories we have lost as by the memories we retain.
March 25, 2021
I have grown up in Birmingham, and all my life I have been exposed to illegally high levels of air pollution. This has had a huge impact on my health, the health of some of my friends, and the health of so many young people across the city. The air we breathe is toxic, and it is killing us. Why is no-one listening?
March 23, 2021
Content warning: mentions of sexual assault and violence against women We often mention climate justice, and the inequalities caused by climate change, and Leah explored what the concept means in this blog, but there are many aspects of climate justice, including gender inequality and its link to the climate emergency which I will explore in more detail in this blog.
March 18, 2021
Pupil voice is one of the most, if not the most, powerful thing that secondary age students have at their disposal. Time and time again, the systems that are often already in place...
March 16, 2021
Young campaigners called for the climate crisis to be covered across the whole curriculum to prepare kids for their futures
March 16, 2021
Most teachers have not been given enough training to do it, campaigners say
March 16, 2021
Teach the Future, a campaign formed by secondary school students who went on strike against climate change in 2019, want the topic to be taught across the curriculum.
March 16, 2021
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly three quarters of British teachers say they have not had enough training to educate students about climate change, the implications of global warming and how best to confront them, a poll showed on Tuesday.