Nicole Blum

Nicole Blum
University College London | UCL · Development Education Research Centre

PhD (Anthropology; University of Sussex, UK)

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September 2008 - present
University College London
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  • Senior Lecturer in Development Education

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Publications (32)
Technical Report
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This Topic Guide sets out the existing knowledge around the links between education, climate and environment. In particular, it highlights the two-way relationship between these key areas, including: •The risks and opportunities posed by environmental and climatic factors on educational supply and demand at all levels (primary, secondary, tertiar...
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A growing body of research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, and its potential contribution to addressing pressing global issues such as sustainable development and climate change. While much of this work has focused on perspectives and practices in Europe and North America, this book explore...
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This paper addresses one of the key challenges for work on education, sustainable development and climate change: the overall conceptualisation of central ideas such as Environmental Education (EE), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Climate Change Education (CCE). What do these concepts mean in diverse contexts and amongst diverse act...
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The discourses around globalisation and internationalisation within higher education to date have tended to focus on institutional change. While recognising the importance of these debates, this paper suggests that issues around curriculum change and teaching and learning through global professions such as health and engineering have so far been la...
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Increasing attention to climate change and the current global economic crisis has underscored the need for approaches to education that equip and empower people of all ages to deal with uncertain environmental, economic and political futures. A range of educational and research initiatives already exist which could support this aim, however, policy...
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Background: There is increasing interest in global health teaching among medical schools and their students. Schools in the UK and internationally are considering the best structure, methods and content of global health courses. Academic work in this area, however, has tended to either be normative (specifying what global health teaching ought to...
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'Research and teaching' is a typical response to the question, 'What are universities for?' For most people, one comes to mind more quickly than the other. Most undergraduate students will think of teaching, while PhD students will think of research. University staff will have similarly varied reactions depending on their roles. Emphasis on one or...
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This paper is based on a small study of UCL student volunteers doing placements through the Volunteering Services Unit (VSU) in 2016. The research aimed to identify the extent to which UCL students who engage in volunteering activities through UCL see a connection between their experience and UCL’s mission of equipping graduates to be ‘global citiz...
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Report commissioned for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust looking at global learning and sustainability in primary schools. The report is divided into eight main sections that explore: The changing global context within which primary schools are operating; The main concepts used within education to promote global and sustainability themes such a...
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Context: The pharmacy world is a highly globalised environment. Pharmacy graduates must therefore be adequately prepared. The question for educators is, how best to prepare our students. We propose that integrating global health learning outcomes within the core curriculum would ensure that all students – irrespective of their personal interest and...
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Globalisation can facilitate improvements in health through the speed and ease of shared information, advances in health care delivery and health policy, and the enhanced pace of discovery through international research collaborations. However, there are associated potential risks to health such as the spread of communicable diseases and antibiotic...
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Development education is an approach to learning that questions dominant paradigms of development and inspires citizen- and community-driven change towards a world of greater social justice. This article provides an overview of development education and reflects on the extent to which development education principles are currently reflected in, or...
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This essay examines the relationship between research and policy and, more specifically, how researchers might relate to policy work. Given the current international policy focus on climate change, green growth and sustainability in general, it argues for strengthening and widening policy research in the areas of Environmental Education (EE), Educa...
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In 2009, a think tank called the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes (IALEI) announced the results of a study entitled Climate Change and Sustainable Development: The Response from Education. Intended for a policy audience, the study offered a glimpse into the status of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and an early loo...
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Medicine is a global profession that is framed by forces that transcend national boundaries such as globalization, the increasingly rapid movement of both people and diseases, climate change and conflict. It follows that medical education needs to constantly strive to keep pace with these changes and to recognise the contributions that medicine can...
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Research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, but has tended to take a narrow focus on specific curricula and policies or on activities within strictly defined sites such as schools, classrooms or protected areas. In contrast, this research argues that greater attention needs to be given to the...
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Veterinary medicine has an increasingly important role to play in addressing the global challenges of the 21st century, particularly in working towards worldwide disease control and food security. This contribution will be vital in the face of pressures resulting from a rapidly expanding, increasingly mobile human population and climate change. Glo...
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A growing body of research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, and its potential contribution to addressing pressing global issues such as sustainable development and climate change. While much of this work has focused on perspectives and practices in Europe and North America, this book explore...
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This is the first major research report in the UK that has looked at the impact of globalisation in terms of the learning and curriculum within further education and training providers in the UK. It is based on interviews ad visits to a range of further education providers.
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The Development Education Research Centre of the Institute of Education was commissioned by VSO to undertake a longitudinal study of how returned volunteers (RVs) take forward their enthusiasms, skills, passions and learning from their placement once back in the UK or Ireland. Following an initial baseline study with 49 Returned Volunteers (RVs) in...
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A key ongoing debate in environmental education practice and its research relates to the content and goals of environmental education programmes. Specifically, there is a long history of debate between advocates of educational perspectives that emphasise the teaching of science concepts and those that seek to more actively link environmental and so...
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Incl. bibl., abstract In addition to the proliferation of private, fee-paying schools in India, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play an important role in providing educational services, especially in un-served and under-served communities. This paper uses qualitative research to critically examine the nature and potential of NGO provision of...
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Environmental education is commonly claimed to be at the centre of efforts to achieve sustainable development. Since the 1980s, Costa Rica has been one of the acknowledged leaders in efforts to promote environmental learning, and national policy includes a three-fold national development strategy which simultaneously promotes education, conservatio...
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Environmental education has been at the centre of international and national policies of sustainable development for the last several decades, and has stimulated debate regarding both its inclusion in curricula and proposed methods for its implementation. Research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental educa...

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