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Interdisciplinary, interactive climate change education: A STEAM approach

‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...

Crisis for whom? Education for climate justice in Scotland

This research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...

‘Dear Oak’: Becoming more place-responsive in the climate and ecological crisis

Catherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...

A different kind of education…

Recent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....

Editorial: Education for our planet and our future

I am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the BERA Council representing BERA members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...

Education for our planet and our future

Climate change is arguably the most pressing educational imperative of modern times, yet in our universities and communities – and within BERA itself – it remains relatively underdiscussed....

How inaction on climate chaos has forced our kids to become the vanguards of change

As educators, we are cognizant of the mantra ‘education is an investment in the future’. Our future, quite frankly, is looking bleak in terms of our inaction in the face of the impending...

The renaming of time and the timing of the name

Geologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...

A war for our world: Reframing the climate crisis

At the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...

The right to protest: A children’s rights perspective on the school climate strikes

In August 2018, Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Swedish Parliament, protesting against her government’s inaction on the climate crisis. Since then, she has sparked a...

Nature, Outdoor Learning & Play SIG Launch Event

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Please join us as we officially launch BERA’s new...

Mark Leather

Senior Lecturer

Dr Mark Leather is a co-convenor of BERA’s Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG). He is an associate professor of education, course tutor for the MRes in Outdoor...