{"id":2006,"date":"2012-06-28T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T08:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2012-06-28T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T08:48:39","slug":"ee-still-trumps-esd-but-keep-quiet-about-tbilisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/06\/28\/ee-still-trumps-esd-but-keep-quiet-about-tbilisi\/","title":{"rendered":"EE still trumps ESD \u2013 but keep quiet about Tbilisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Page 18 of the full version of the new UNESCO <a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0021\/002164\/216472e.pdf\">report<\/a> on the DESD contains a figure [2] showing Google hits on websites representing various adjectival educations (EE \/ ESD \/ ...). \u00a0Sadly, I'm not techie enough to copy it here. \u00a0However, this is the accompanying text (<em>my emphasis<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the number of \u2018hits\u2019 or websites generated during a Google search is any indicator of a social phenomenon, and if continuous growth in these hits indicates its growing presence in society, then consider the following: on 29 March 2005 \u2013 the first year of the DESD \u2013 a Google search for \u2018education for sustainable development\u2019 yielded 89,000 websites. On 29 January 2009 \u2013 almost four years into the DESD \u2013 the same search yielded 215,000 websites. On 28 January 2012, this search yielded 1,550,000 hits \u2013 over 7 times the number of 2009 hits and over 17 times the number of 2005 hits on ESD. Of course, this rapid growth is also a result of the on-going digitalization of communication. Other educational fields related to ESD show a similar growth pattern, but none of those listed in Figure 2 grew as fast as ESD (except for CCE, but Google hits for CCE were not logged in 2005 and 2009).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 2 also demonstrates that the much older and more widely established field of EE has a similar growth pattern \u2013 but while in January 2009 it received more than 16 times more hits (3.5 million websites) than ESD, in January 2012 it yielded 7,9 million hits \u2013 \u2018only\u2019 5 times more than ESD<\/strong>. <strong>It should be noted that in absolute terms, EE is still by far the highest-ranking adjectival education in terms of Google hits. This suggests that this traditional field still has very significant global presence.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How odd, then, that there is no mention of the seminal Tbilisi meeting in 1977 in the history of ESD set out in the <a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0021\/002166\/216606e.pdf\">abridged<\/a> version (pages 10\/11). \u00a0It seems nothing significant happened between the\u00a01972, Stockholm UN Conference on the Human Environment, and the\u00a01992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).<\/p>\n<p>It's convenient, of course, to re-write history like this, as you then get to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The roots of ESD and the DESD can be traced back to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite shameless ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Page 18 of the full version of the new UNESCO report on the DESD contains a figure [2] showing Google hits on websites representing various adjectival educations (EE \/ ESD \/ ...). \u00a0Sadly, I'm not techie enough to copy it...<\/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":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}