{"id":1705,"date":"2012-04-19T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:32:42","slug":"ee-in-the-usa-not-an-academic-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/04\/19\/ee-in-the-usa-not-an-academic-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"EE in the USA: not an academic in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm watching part of the recent <em>White House summit on Environmental Education<\/em> on You Tube. \u00a0Worth a view if only for the unusual introduction by moderator Marcia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcia_McNutt\">McNutt<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPQ4OKCh-yQ\">Panel<\/a> on <em>21<\/em><em>st<\/em><em> Century Environmentalism: Shaping the Emerging Vision for Environmental Education.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The composition of this panel is instructive:\u00a0the ever-admirable and reliably-witty Judy Braus from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naaee.net\/\">NAAEE<\/a> (I run her fanzine), a woman with dollars from <em>Toyota<\/em>, an educational consultant who writes for\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>, a <em>UCLA<\/em> ecology prof, a Girl Scout organiser, and a bloke who might just have written a book with the ecologist (but the intro <em>was<\/em> ambiguous).<\/p>\n<p>Not an actual teacher or school leader in sight; not any academics who might have had an informed overview of e<em>nvironmental education <\/em>and research on it<em>. <\/em>Odd, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Would we do this differently here? \u00a0An idle question, of course, as will be obvious when we all think back to the last <em>Downing Street<\/em> <em>summit on Environmental Education. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>Now, when <em>was<\/em> that ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm watching part of the recent White House summit on Environmental Education on You Tube. \u00a0Worth a view if only for the unusual introduction by moderator Marcia\u00a0McNutt to the Panel on 21st Century Environmentalism: Shaping the Emerging Vision for Environmental...<\/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":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates","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\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}