ABSTRACT
This final chapter explores the construction, delivery and evaluation of Reaching Out, the World Wide Fund for Nature UK’s programme of professional development for teachers. It argues that political ecology and critical theory provide sound foundations for understanding our current crisis of environment and development and for determining the aims, content and pedagogy of education for sustainability. This suggests that such education should link with political movements beyond the school and explains why many teachers will reject its introduction at a time of conservative educational reform. The evaluation of Reaching Out offers reasons for its limited success and while there is much scope for revision and improvement, the chapter argues that WWF-UK should not abandon a developing philosophy of education for sustainability which accords with the recent proposals of the Real World coalition. The chapter is a reminder that futures education should be securely anchored in present material and cultural realities and the trends which they display.
