{"id":1206,"date":"2012-01-13T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2012-01-13T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:47:42","slug":"promoting-understanding-of-sustainability-in-the-stewardship-of-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/01\/13\/promoting-understanding-of-sustainability-in-the-stewardship-of-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Initially, I wondered what to make of the expert group's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/publications\/standard\/publicationDetail\/Page1\/DFE-00135-2011\">proposal<\/a> to government that an aim of the curriculum ought to be to ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My first reaction was one of some relief that there is anything in there at all. \u00a0The second is that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>is actually a rather interesting phrase given that the availability and use of resources are key to the way that our lives and civilisation will (be able to) develop. \u00a0The imperative for schools, therefore, might just be to accept the challenge of this less than perfect phrasing, and to work within it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we shall have little choice, but it will surely be an error to indulge in too much self-indulgent pedantry and\u00a0precious textual critique here; the best will certainly be the enemy of the good.<\/p>\n<p>Much better that DfE \/ Mr Gove are deluged with welcoming comments about the importance of their accepting the recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially, I wondered what to make of the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally My first reaction...<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","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=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}