THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK.
Decolonising and decarbonising education.
This workshop gives an overview of climate justice and intersectionality. Discuss how decolonising and decarbonising need to be considered synergistically for education to deliver on climate justice. Explore examples of climate injustice, how this often intersects with issues of race, gender and class and how we can create a sustainability-focused teaching and learning that challenges and addresses the harmful legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
Mean anything to you? Nope. I thought not. It means nothing to me either!
But this is the kind of claptrap that is all too common at our teaching union conferences (the above is from a workshop at a union conference in 2026). Rather than being concerned about turning out students who are literate and numerate they bother themselves with left-wing politics that most of the country doesn’t want to know about and cares even less about.
I know one man, whose company insisted that all its employees underwent compulsory training on the issues raised in the workshop summary, who simply refused to take part. He wasn’t disciplined. Presumably the employer realised they’d have a difficult job to defend this nonsense at an employment tribunal. And another, a delegate at a union conference who, rather than listen to the twaddle spouted by Polanski, explored instead the South Downs Way! I’m sure the latter was more enriching for his soul.
What does the Bible have to say about common sense? Well, you would make a good start by looking up Proverbs. A couple of verses come to mind. Look up Proverbs chapter 2, verse 7 onwards, and chapter 16, verse 22.
© Ian Williams 2026.
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