Learning for Sustainability: young people and practitioner perspectives
This report (8 February 2023) commissioned by the Scottish Government is based on research conducted by a team at the University of Dundee into the understanding and implementation of Learning for Sustainability amongst young people aged 14+ in school and community learning and development settings and the practitioners responsible for [...]
Dundee’s positive changes
This post on Scottish Pollinators (21 November 2023) shares the great strides Dundee City Council has been making to implement a range of measures to help biodiversity across the city.
Creating a school meadow has brought us closer to nature
This article in the TES (14th April 2023), written by the Head teacher of Morgan Academy Dundee, has been shared by Children in Scotland. Headteacher Johnny Lothian describes how The Eden Project helped sow a wildflower meadow in the school grounds. Read how this partnership project has become an important [...]
Dundee’s greenspaces are getting greener!
Greenspace Scotland report on this as Project of the Month in their July bulletin. This article describes how Dundee City Council now have 27 sites across the city that they manage in new ways, as either biodiversity-rich meadows (‘biodiversity grasslands’) or less-intensively managed grasslands (‘naturalised grasslands’). The council were encouraged [...]
Play Well Podcast – Partnership Working
In this Play Well series episode 8, Play Scotland explores partnership working to plan for play at local authority level. Listen as Play Scotland’s Head of Projects, Cherie Morgan, catches up with Audrey White from Dundee City council. Audrey is the Education Support Officer for the Children and Families Service, [...]
