{"id":1566,"date":"2012-05-28T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2012-05-28T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T10:47:04","slug":"a-view-from-1979-33-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/05\/28\/a-view-from-1979-33-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A view from 1979 \u2013 33 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attached is an extended version of the editorial I have contributed to the 100th edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naee.org.uk\">NAEE<\/a>'s <em>Environmental Education<\/em>. \u00a0Quite a milestone.<\/p>\n<p>The text looks back to what HMI were saying in 1979 about environmental education and the curriculum in their\u00a0<em>Curriculum 11-16: supplementary working papers<\/em>. \u00a0When\u00a0I re-read this text last year, I was struck just how neglected the arguments are, <em>and<\/em> by how pertinent\u00a0some of them remain.\u00a0 The document begins by stating that environmental education \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cis to be regarded as a function of the whole curriculum, formal and informal \u2026 furthered through established subjects and by courses in environmental science and environmental studies which in varying degree are interdisciplinary. <\/em><em>There is a common purpose in these to foster an understanding of the processes and complex relationships which effect environmental patterns, together with a sensitivity to environmental quality and a concern for the wise and equitable management of the earth's resources.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it ends with\u00a0HMI emphasising the importance of subjects:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is the proper part of academic disciplines to establish the main conceptual frameworks within which progressing learning and increasingly sophisticated understanding may be developed.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 adding that separate or combined subject approaches are both valid and necessary.\u00a0 Significantly, however, they return to an earlier point and add:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThere is also a responsibility to ... recognise that the needs of the individual and of society require co-operation (however devised) in the study of many significant issues, or something will be lost.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This certainly implies that the single subject approach has its limitations, and limits.\u00a0 Thirty-three years on, that is a truth still to be fully appreciated \u2013 as is the focus that HMI placed on stimulating social (as opposed to individual) action.<\/p>\n<p>So it seems pellucidly clear that, not only do HMI\u2019s musings remain valuable, but that there <em>is<\/em> also still an important job for NAEE to do. \u00a0The text is here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/files\/\/www\/vhosts\/bathblogs\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/103\/files\/2012\/03\/NAEE-EDITORIAL.doc\">NAEE EDITORIAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attached is an extended version of the editorial I have contributed to the 100th edition of NAEE's Environmental Education. \u00a0Quite a milestone. The text looks back to what HMI were saying in 1979 about environmental education and the curriculum in...<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}