Embed sustainability and global citizenship in educational policy and practice, linking to the UN agenda for global education after 2015.
What works and what matters: education in spite of policy. Keynote at CPRT’s national conference – Primary Education: what is and what might be. London, 18 November 2016.
Research
Research Review – Sustainability and Global Understanding, Dr Douglas Bourn, Dr Frances Hunt and Dr Nicole Blum.
CPRT publications
Bourn, D., Hunt, F., Blum., N., and Lawson, H.(2016) Primary Education for Global Learning and Sustainability. York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. For a summary of the report click here.
Responses to government and parliamentary consultations
National Curriculum Review: CPR response to the proposals outlined in the Secretary of State’s letter, June 11th 2012
National Curriculum Review: CPR response to Phase 1B, April 14th 2011
Blogs
Vanessa Young and Jonathan Barnes, We’re all global citizens now, 17th June 2016
Ben Ballin, Learning Global, 29th April 2016
Ben Ballin, From pessimism to hope: global learning and sustainability, November 6th 2015.
Robin Alexander, 2015: teach local, learn global, January 9th 2015.
Robin Alexander, Campaign for sustainability, September 1st 2014.
Robin Alexander, The parts the National Curriculum doesn’t reach, August 12th 2014.
Events and local initiatives
Sustainability and global learning: Challenges and possibilities for schools, TIDE Global Learning with CPRT and Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, November 21st 2014.
View/download Powerpoint presentations from the above event.
CPR publications
Alexander, R.J. et al (2010), Children, their World, their Education: Final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review, London: Routledge. Chapters 12 and 14.
Alexander, R. and Hargreaves, L. (2007), Community Soundings: The Primary Review regional witness sessions, Cambridge: University of Cambridge.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Lowe, J. (2010), ‘Aims for primary education: changing global contexts’, in Alexander, R.J. et al (eds) (2010) The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, London: Routledge, 261-81. Interim report summary (2008)
Conroy, J., Hulme, M. and Menter, I. (2010), ‘Primary curriculum futures’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 415-30. Interim report summary (2008)
Machin, S. and McNally S. (2010), ‘Aims for primary education: the changing national context’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 247-61. Interim report summary (2008)
Shuayb, M. and O’Donnell, S. (2010), ‘Aims and values in primary education: England and other countries’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 306-40. Interim report summary (2008)
Other publications
Alexander, Robin (2014), Visions of Education, Roads to Reform: PISA, the Global Race and the Cambridge Primary Review, University of Malmo, Sweden.
Alexander, Robin (2012), Moral Panic, Miracle Cures and Education Policy: what can we really learn from international comparison?, Scottish Educational Review 44:1, 4-21.
Alexander, Robin (2010), “World class schools” – noble aspiration or globalised hokum?, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 40:6, 801-817.