Welcome to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's education hub
Find information debate and discussion around the frameworks for thinking proposed for a circular economy. We engage via outreach, CPD and the creation of stimulus resources for use in the classroom, lecture theatre and online. We have several major projects relating to STEM, design and technology, economics, enterprise and business education. We work primarily in higher education and 14-19 age range. The core text for the education team is the book Sense and Sustainability by Ken Webster and Craig Johnson
The most important resources available to us are our creativity and imagination because they enable us to conceive that which is not yet realised
-Prof. Paul Clark
Some classroom essentials 14-19
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Emerging Directions
How may we work to have most impact? Impact is a strange word, as its not an advertising campaign but then again we do want to get attention and we do want to see educators and learners b...
Looking Forward with Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen’s articles and think pieces over at worldchanging.com (sadly now discontinued) often became the basis for a reflection here at the Foundation. This is fine and as it should b...
Education and the Circular Economy
Skills for a New Economy
How do we ensure that both the workforce of today and future generations are equipped with the skills needed to move towards a new, circular economy?
A correspondent writes…
Blue, circular, C2C, closed loop, biomimetic, ‘positive development’? There seems to be a surfeit of terms competing to be the dominant descriptor for the shape of the econom...
Recycled cardboard. Why waste should be food.
The idea that recycling is a ‘good thing’ pretty much pervades the formal schooling system, but it may be due for a rethink. Recent scientific investigations around recycled ca...
The fool on the cliff.
Back from Hamburg and some training with the EPEA folks, who are well known as consultants and experts on the ‘cradle to cradle’ (C2C) approach to design. We had a very good wee...
The power of feedback.
It's a puzzling old world. No sooner has the IEA’s latest outlook on world oil (1) announced that as far as conventional and cheap-to-extract oil is concerned we are on a platea...
News
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- 24 October 2011 Projects Coordinator joins education team
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- 24 October 2011 ReDesign internships
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- 24 October 2011 Roundview
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- 24 October 2011 Re-thinking Progress
Contact & Teacher support
For further information and support, or to share your teaching ideas via this website, contact us. From Spring 2012 we will be creating a number of part time positions for Field Officers, in England Scotland and Wales, who will be able to provide support to departments, individuals and institutions regionally.