Sustainable Leadership Solutions, by SEEd Fellow David Dixon - Bowbridge Primary School

Posted: 19 May 2010

This paper describes one school leader’s understanding of what ‘Sustainable Schools’ really mean and how this fits with the Big Picture on Climate Change and current debates on what the aims of education should be. It is informed by his recent completion of a doctoral thesis at the University of Lincoln. The author is Dr David Dixon, Head Teacher of Bowbridge Primary School Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. The school has 470 on roll and serves an area of significant disadvantage.

The Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was rather a damp squib given the alleged importance of addressing a truly global threat. In a nutshell, the world leaders signed up to a commitment to avoid average global temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius from present levels. This did not include detailed targets for reducing greenhouse gases and so the commitment was sufficiently woolly to create a consensus view. Although individual nations and regions do have more specific and binding targets, the fact that there were no global ones leaves one with the impression that everyone is waiting for everyone else to take radical action.

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Sustainable Leadership Solutions