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‘Forty years since Brisbane ’86 and the need for school geography to foster critical global citizenship is greater than ever’, Geographical Education, 38, 2025. pp. 23-33

‘Re-visioning the GeoCapabilities project through the lens of critical realism with a focus on sustainable global citizenship’. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2024.2405316

‘Confronting the crisis: towards a curriculum framework for geography at key stages 4 and 5’, Geography, 109/1, 2024, pp. 18=26*. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2297609

‘Critical education for sustainability and Chantal Mouffe’s green democratic revoluton’, The Curriculum Journal, 00, 2023, 1-18*. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.232

School Geography as Radical Global Citizenship Education. In: Muñiz Solari, O., Schrüfer, G. (eds) Understanding Sustainability with Pedagogical Practice. Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Singapore, 2023, pp. 55 – 66*. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-2687-9_5

‘Critical Realism: the philosophy of knowledge that is missing from the Curriculum for Wales’, International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 14/2, 2022, pp. 13-27* https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/IJDEGL.14.2.02

‘Spotlight on . . . Critical school geography’, Geography, 105/3, 2020, pp. 157-160

Critical School Geography: Education for Global Citizenship, a self published ebook, 2020*

‘Powerful geographical knowledge is critical knowledge underpinned by critical realism’, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017, DOI: 10.1080/10382046.2017.1366203*

‘Becoming critical. A challenge for the Global Learning Programme?’, International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 8/3, 2017, pp. 63-84*

‘Putting global citizenship at the heart of global learning: a critical approach’, Geography, 100/2, 2015, pp.76 -83*

(Co-authored with Arjen Wals) ‘The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end’, Environmental Education Research, 21/3, 2015, pp. 491 – 505.*

‘Education for Sustainable Citizenship: an Emerging Focus for Education for Sustainability’, Chapter 16 in J. Huckle & S Sterling (eds.) Education for Sustainability, Routledge, 2014, pp. 228 – 243*

‘Education for sustainability citizenship in Europe’, Open Citizenship, 5/1, 2014, pp. 32 – 47

Entry on History (of the concept of sustainable development) in Rowe, D. (ed.), Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles and Practices, Detroit, Macmillan, 2014, pp. 450 – 459.*

‘Eco-Schooling and Sustainability Citizenship: exploring some issues raised by corporate sponsorship’ The Curriculum Journal, 24/2, 2013, pp. 206 -223.*

‘Teacher education for sustainability in network society: Combining sustainability and digital literacies’, Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 14/2, 2012, pp. 128-143.*.

‘Towards greater realism in learning for sustainabilty’ Chapter 1 in A. Wals & P. Corcoran (eds.) Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change, Wageningen Academic, 2012,  pp. 35 – 48, ISBN978-90-8686-093-7*

‘Even more sense and sustainability’ (a review essay focussing on Ken Webster and Craig Johnson’s Sense and Sustainability), Environmental Education Research, 18/6, 2012, pp. 845-858.*

‘Sustainable Development’ Chapter 38 in J Arthur & A Peterson (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Education, Routledge, 2012, pp. 362 -371, ISBN 978-0-415-58347-3*

‘Bringing Sustainability into Sharper Focus’, Teaching Geography, Autumn 2011, pp. 118 -9.*

‘ESD and the Current Crisis of Capitalism: Teaching Beyond Green New Deals’, Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 4/1, 2010, pp. 135 – 142*

‘Sustainable schools: responding to new challenges and opportunities’, Geography, 94/1, Spring 2009, pp. 13 – 21*

‘Consulting the UK ESD community on an ESD indicator to recommend to Government: an insight into the micro-politics of ESD’, Environmental Education Research, 15/1, 2009, pp.1 – 15*

‘Sustainable Development’, Chapter 26 in J. Arthur, I Davies & C. Hahn (eds.) Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy, Sage, 2008, pp. 342 – 354, ISBN 978 1 4129 3621 7*

‘An analysis of New Labour’s policy on education for sustainable development with particular reference to socially critical approaches’, Environmental Education Research, 14/1, 2008, pp. 65 – 75 *

Policies and Practices for Sustainable Development: a briefing paper for trainee teachers. Published on the citized website, December 2007*

A UK indicator fo the impact of formal learning on knowledge and awareness of sustainable development: proposals from the Sustainable Development Commission, 2006*  This is an independent report for the SDC and not an SDC publication*

Community Action for Sustainable Development, 2004. A teaching unit for ITT tutors and beginning teachers. Published on the citized website.

Citizenship education for sustainable development in initial teacher training, 2004. A background article. Published on the citized website.

‘Critical realism: a philosophical framework for higher education for sustainability’ in Corcoran, P. & Wals, A. (eds.) Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability, Kluwer, 2004, pp. 33 – 46. ISBN 1 4020 2026 0*

‘Time to get real’ (the case for basing development education on global citizenship rather than global perspectives and dimensions), Development Education Journal, 9/1, October 2002, pp. 32 – 34

Education for Sustainability: a guide for primary schools, (Burning Issues in Primary Education, Issue 5), National Primary Trust, 2002. ISBN 1 898908 61 3*

‘Reconstructing Nature: towards a geographical education for sustainable development’, Geography, January, 2002, pp. 64 – 72

‘Global Citizenship in Initial Teacher Education’ (a discussion paper written for the Development Education Association), 2001*

‘Towards Ecological Citizenship’ in Lambert D. & Machon P. (eds.), Citizenship Education through Secondary Geography, Routledge/Falmer, 2001. ISBN 0 415 23160 4

With Adrian Martin, Environments in a Changing World, Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN 0582 32772 5

‘Primary Education for Sustainable Development’, Primary Practice, 29, Autumn 2001, pp. 13 = 19*

‘Representing Nature: The Challenge for Botanic Gardens Educators’, roots, July 2000,, pp. 20 – 24*

‘Locating Environmental Education Between Modern Capitalism and Postmodern Socialism: A Reply to Lucie Sauve’, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 4, 1999, pp. 36 – 45

‘The WWF UK Reaching Out programme’ Chapter 20′  in Hicks D & Slaughter R (eds.), World Yearbook of Education 1998, Futures Education, Routledge, 1998, pp. 271 – 286. ISBN 0 7494 2236 X

‘Towards a Critical School Geography’ in Tilbury D. & Williams M. (eds.), Teaching and Learning Geography, Routledge, 1997. pp. 241 – 254. Reprinted in Smith M. (ed.), Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools, Routledge/Falmer with Open University, 2002, pp. 255 – 265

‘Blue Shades of Green, John Huckle calls for a radical drive to recognise environmental responsibility as a key issue in geography’, TES Geography Extra, 28.03.1997*

Co-editor with S Sterling, Education for Sustainability, Earthscan, 1996. (2nd edition with revised introduction and additional chapter, 2014)

‘Globalisation, postmodernity and citizenship’, in Steiner M. (ed.), Developing the Global Teacher: Theory to Practice in Teacher Education, Trentham Books, 1996, pp. 29 – 36

Part 1, Part 2 (Geography with Bob Digby) and Part 3 of Reaching Out: the tutors’ file (WWF’s programme of professional development for teachers), WWF Education Department, 1995.

‘Using Television Critically in Environmental Education’, Environmental Education Research, 1/3, 1995*

‘Environmental Education and Sustainability: A view from Critical Theory’, in Fien J (ed.), Environmental Education: a pathway to sustainability, Deakin University Press, 1993, pp. 42 – 68*

Geography section of The Decade of Destruction (an education pack to accompany Adrian Cowell’s films for Central Television), WWF Education Department, 1992.

‘Education for Sustainability: assessing pathways to the future’, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 7, 1991, pp. 43 – 62*

‘Ten Red Questions To Ask Green Teachers’, Education Links 37, 1989/90, pp. 4 -8. Republished with permission from Green Teacher*

‘Green consumerism – exploring the contradicitons’, Annual Review of Environmental Education, CEE, 1989, pp. 37 -39*

Lessons from political education, In D. Hicks & M. Steiner (eds.) Making Global Connections, A World Studies Workbook, Oliver & Boyd, 1989*

‘Teaching for sustainable development, commitment to action’, TES Geography Extra, 24.04.1988

‘Environmental Education: teaching for a sustainable future’ in Dufour B (ed.), The New Social Curriculum, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 150 – 166. ISBN 0 524 34875 7

What We Consume (a module of WWF’s Global Environmental Education Programme consisting of a Teachers Handbook and ten curriculum units), Richmond Publishing Company, 1988 – 1995. (The Teachers Handbook 1988;  Extracts from Unit 3 Our Consumer Society 1993; and Activity 3.2 Living on the Treadmill are available – go to downloads)

‘Geography and World Citizenship’, in Fien J and Gerber R. (eds.), Teaching Geography for a Better World, Oliver & Boyd, 1988. ISBN 0 05 004259 9

‘Reflections on a trip down under’, Annual Review of Environmental Education, 1987, pp. 44-46*

‘Confronting the Ecological Crisis’, Contemporary Issues (in geography and education), 2/2, pp. 2-13*

‘Geography and Schooling’, in Johnston, R. (ed.), The Future of Geography, Methuen, 1985, pp. 291 – 306. ISBN 0 416 36700 3*

‘Ecological Crisis: Some Implications for Geographical Education’, Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education, 2/2, 1985, pp. 2-13*

Editor, Geographical Education: Reflection and Action, OUP, 1983 ISBN 0 19 913281

‘Values Education through Geography; A Radical Critique’, Journal of Geography,  Vol. 82, 1983, pp. 59-63*

‘Its time for a change, too much current geography fails to relect conemporary realities’, TES Geography Extra, 2.12.1983*

‘Geography and values education’, In R. Walford (ed.) Signposts for Geography Teaching, Longman, 1981, pp. 147-163*

‘Attitudes and values in environmental education, an introduction to the literature’, Review of Environmental Education Developments, 1980*

‘Values And The Teaching of Geography – Towards A Curriculum Rationale’, Geographical Education, 3, 1980, pp. 533-544*

‘Values and Attitudes, the Geography Teacher’s New Frontier’, Teachers Talking (about the GYSL project), 1976*

‘Geography for the Young School Leaver, a Classroom Opener’, Classroom Geographer, 1975*

‘Geography, a vested interest in education, Classroom Geographer, 1975*