{"id":5030,"date":"2013-11-12T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T09:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2013-11-12T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T09:14:17","slug":"why-is-sustainability-not-seen-as-a-class-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/11\/12\/why-is-sustainability-not-seen-as-a-class-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is sustainability not seen as a class issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So asks NUS vice president\u00a0<strong><em>Dom Anderson<\/em><\/strong> in a compelling blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nusconnect.org.uk\/blogs\/blog\/domanderson\/2013\/11\/11\/My-daughters-future-depends-on-sustainability\">post<\/a> on Monday. \u00a0You should read it all, but here\u2019s a flavour:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">Why is sustainability not seen as a class issue? \u00a0It will be the housing estates in our inner cities where the energy prices will kill grandparents, it\u2019ll be in the classrooms of struggling urban schools where young people are made to feel that they can\u2019t affect any kind of meaningful environmental change and it will ultimately be the poorest who end up starving because the rich corporations have destroyed our delicate eco-systems.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">This is why NUS\u2019 work is so important. \u00a0Studies suggest that students form behaviours while at college or university that stay with them for the rest of their lives, from the beer we drink to the music we listen to. \u00a0I believe it is our education system\u2019s duty to embed learners and students with knowledge of sustainability. \u00a0Why should we allow our future business, political and educational leaders to leave tertiary education as the problem and not the solution to environmental sustainability? \u00a0It should be part of our national curriculum, and not just something that is spoken about in our nicer primary schools. <\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dom has hit the button in many respects (though my choice of beer \u2013 thank goodness \u2013 has changed since I was at university). \u00a0I'm not sure, though, that all socially-deprived children go to schools that dismiss sustainability. \u00a0It might even be the reverse of this, with teachers rightly seeing sustainability as a focus which leads to interest, motivation and achievement. \u00a0Sadly, my grounds for saying this are only anecdotal, although the research evidence for the power of sustainability to motivate and educate is substantial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So asks NUS vice president\u00a0Dom Anderson in a compelling blog post on Monday. \u00a0You should read it all, but here\u2019s a flavour: Why is sustainability not seen as a class issue? \u00a0It will be the housing estates in our inner...<\/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-5030","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\/5030","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=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}