{"id":4688,"date":"2013-09-24T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2013-09-24T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T07:38:09","slug":"eesd-lord-browne-and-half-a-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/09\/24\/eesd-lord-browne-and-half-a-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"EESD: Lord Browne, and half a speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second keynote on day one of the conference was given by Lord Browne of Maddingley. \u00a0It \u00a0hadn't a title, which may have been because it didn't have much of a focus. \u00a0This was a<span> keynote that could have been given to any engineering conference. It was hugely disappointing. \u00a0It was also short, at about 20 minutes in an hour-long slot, which left a lot of time for questions. \u00a0But these weren't much better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He did talk about the key attributes that engineers need; one of these was the ability to communicate and work with communities, which is not something that Cuadrilla, an outfit that Browne is involved with, seem to be much good at. <\/span><span>But he did plug his new book: <em>The seven elements that changed the world<\/em>, whose title is a nod to the output of the majesterial Henry Hobhouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the first two parallel session that I went to were hugely informative. \u00a0I split my time between <em>Curriculum development<\/em> and <em>Teaching and learning <\/em>and listened to inputs from across Europe, and from Canada. \u00a0These re-confirmed my view that engineers continue to innovate in their work with students around sustainability, and are some of the most interesting folk to listen to, particularly when it comes to curriculum and pedagogy.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to note was that whenever ESD was mentioned \u2013 which was not often \u2013 it meant '<em>engineering for sustainable development<\/em>'. \u00a0No one in my hearing mentioned the other ESD.<\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second keynote on day one of the conference was given by Lord Browne of Maddingley. \u00a0It \u00a0hadn't a title, which may have been because it didn't have much of a focus. \u00a0This was a keynote that could have been...<\/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-4688","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\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}