{"id":4520,"date":"2013-09-04T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2013-09-04T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:16:22","slug":"fashioning-something-fabulous-in-silk-georgette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/09\/04\/fashioning-something-fabulous-in-silk-georgette\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashioning something fabulous in silk georgette"},"content":{"rendered":"

August was a creating month in our house. \u00a0I laboured over the construction of a book chapter, and my wife over the re-creation of a 1930s dress. Hers is in silk georgette; mine in duller stuff in every sense. The chapter title says it all:\u00a0ESD: a critical review of concept, potential and risk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both are a result of careful finger-brain interaction, though my word processor is much more forgiving of error than are her scissors. \u00a0And stitches are more laboriously undone than inapt phrasing \u2013 of which there was plenty. \u00a0That said, we have both been in the doing \u2013 undoing, ravelling \u2013 unravelling, and stitching \u2013 restitching business with their all frustrations generously shared between us. \u00a0She has had to learn how to handle the expensive silk, to see how it hangs and falls and slips. \u00a0I'm not sure what I've had to learn other that even more patience than normal in moving text \u2013great slabs, and tiny splinters alike \u2013 to see where the best fits were for the arguments to emerge and flow. \u00a0But, unlike my wife, who had a pattern (which she made herself) to follow, I only had the argument I wanted to pursue that was encoded in my Abstract:<\/p>\n

\n

The last 50 years have shown how human socio-economic development continues to compromise the biosphere\u2019s ability to support life on Earth.\u00a0 In response, United Nations\u2019 commissions, conferences, and summits, have resulted in ideas around sustainable development, and much international activity on socio-economic and environmental goals. \u00a0In parallel with this, over the same period, education, particularly in schools, has come to be seen as a crucial social strategy if new ways of socio-economic\u00a0development are to emerge that will enable everyone to live well, and keep within the Earth\u2019s ability to support life \u2013 now and in the future.\u00a0 UN processes have resulted in the idea of education for sustainable development (ESD), and a Decade (DESD: 2005\u20132014) of global activity has focused on this. \u00a0ESD can be thought of as the bringing together of a wide variety of educational strategies aimed at addressing the existential problems of human socio-economic development. \u00a0But, as we near the end of the Decade, what can we say about how ESD is conceptualised and interpreted; about its coherence and usefulness as an idea; about how well it fits within education systems and schools; about its potential as a strategy to change educational experiences across the globe; and about the uncertainties and ambiguities at its heart. \u00a0This chapter examines these questions and puts forward a number of issues for both practitioners and policy makers to consider in post-Decade deliberations.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

My folk memory is that I used to write rather straightforwardly. \u00a0I'd have a start, middle and end, and just got on with it. \u00a0I suspect it's all nonsense, and that the process was as complex, long-winded and difficult as it is today. \u00a0This will sound pretentious, \u00a0but I write now-a-days like Lowry painted in his last years. \u00a0He said:<\/div>\n
\n
\"when I started in on the plain canvas I hadn't the slightest idea as to what sort of industrial scene would result. \u00a0But by making a start, by putting a church or chimney near the middle, [the] picture seemed to come bit by bit.\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Just so. \u00a0I said it was pretentious \u2013 and, anyway, I don't much like the great industrial landscapes of Lowry's later years. \u00a0As for me, I wonder if it's too late to take up poetry ...<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August was a creating month in our house. \u00a0I laboured over the construction of a book chapter, and my wife over the re-creation of a 1930s dress. Hers is in silk georgette; mine in duller stuff in every sense. The...<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}