{"id":128,"date":"2009-10-07T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-10-07T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:38:16","slug":"copenhagen-convention-on-climate-change-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/10\/07\/copenhagen-convention-on-climate-change-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Convention on Climate Change and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Futura Lt BT', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umweltbildung.ch\">Rolf Jucker<\/a>, of the Swiss Foundation for Environmental Education in Bern, contacted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eauc.org.uk\/under_the_same_roof_the_shed_sustainability_in_\">SHED<\/a> network recently saying that \"a\u00a0few people here in\u00a0Switzerland are trying to word a paragraph for the Copenhagen Convention on Climate Change which aims to put education right at the top\", and wondered whether anybody else was trying to do the same, and asking people to get in touch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Futura Lt BT', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: small\">My response was: \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px\">I'm sure that there are many such paragraphs. \u00a0What follows is the one that I use when talking about the relationship between learning and sustainability. \u00a0This captures, for me, the core role for learning as a collaborative and reflective process, the inter-generational dimension, the imperatives around social justice, and the idea of environmental limits. \u00a0This may be a text that I use, but it's not, of course, really\u00a0<em>mine<\/em>. \u00a0It owes much (if not everything) to the past and continuing work of John Foster, Steve Gough and Paul Vare, and to other colleagues at Bath and elsewhere.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><strong>\"The process that we call sustainable development makes no sense other than as a social learning process of improving the human condition that can be continued indefinitely without undermining itself.\u00a0\u00a0In this sense, sustainable development doesn\u2019t, instrumentally, depend on learning; rather it\u2019s inherently a learning process of making the emergent future ecologically sound and humanly habitable, as it emerges, through the continuous, responsive learning which is the human species\u2019 most characteristic endowment.\"<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Futura Lt BT', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: medium\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolf Jucker, of the Swiss Foundation for Environmental Education in Bern, contacted the SHED network recently saying that \"a\u00a0few people here in\u00a0Switzerland are trying to word a paragraph for the Copenhagen Convention on Climate Change which aims to put education...<\/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-128","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\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}