{"id":108,"date":"2009-10-01T20:42:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-10-01T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:42:59","slug":"sdrn-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/10\/01\/sdrn-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"SDRN Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sd-research.org.uk\/\">SDRN<\/a> conference was held last week at the Welcome Trust. \u00a0For the first time in its 10 year history there was a slot on the programme for a focus on education (on ESD), and I was happy to be invited to speak in a crowded programme which, once more, left little space for discussion. \u00a0My theme, stimulated by Chris Gayford's recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwf.org.uk\/what_we_do\/working_with_schools\/\">research<\/a>, was that of the benefits of seeing ESD as citizenship education. \u00a0In a recent paper, my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/education\/people\/profiles\/awgstables.html\">Andy Stables<\/a> has argued that the prime curriculum focus in schools now should be on the development of skills of critical thinking, dialogue and debate, with environment and sustainability one of many focuses.\u00a0 Andy argues that, whilst openness to the real public debate is crucial, it\u2019s vital to remember that capacities are not outcomes, that they don\u2019t simply precede outcomes, and that, to a large extent, it\u2019s the making of real-life decisions that most fully develops the capacity for exercising responsible citizenship.\u00a0 This seems to me to be a good reason to enable students to begin to practise such real-life, decision-making in<em> <\/em>schools, and the curriculum niche known as citizenship seems the most appropriate \u00a0niche (and a \u2013 and mainstream one at that)\u00a0within which schools can pursue ideas around sustainability. \u00a0Good for ESD; good for citizenship, you might think.<\/p>\n<p>If you'd like to read more, just click <a href=\"http:\/\/bathblogs.wpengine.com\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/10\/SDRN-CONFERENCE-TEXT1.pdf\">SDRN CONFERENCE TEXT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual SDRN conference was held last week at the Welcome Trust. \u00a0For the first time in its 10 year history there was a slot on the programme for a focus on education (on ESD), and I was happy to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}