{"id":5336,"date":"2014-01-08T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2014-01-08T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:22:06","slug":"unescos-priority-of-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/01\/08\/unescos-priority-of-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO&#039;s priority of priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the UNESCO End-of Decade conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014\">website<\/a>, you find this information in a page bottom strap line:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/africa\/priority-africa\/\">Africa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco\/themes\/gender-equality\/\">Gender Equality<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/education\/themes\/leading-the-international-agenda\/education-for-all\/\">Education for All<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/education\/themes\/leading-the-international-agenda\/education-for-sustainable-development\/\">Sustainable Development<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/social-and-human-sciences\/themes\/about-ethics-of-science-and-technology\/\">Ethics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/culture\/themes\/dialogue\/\">Intercultural Dialogue<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/ci\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=1645&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Knowledge Societies<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Popular topics<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/35\/\">World Heritage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/\">Water<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/quick-theme-selector\/intangible-heritage\/\">Intangible Heritage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/ci\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=1530&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Press Freedom<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=33437&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">HIV &amp; AIDS<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/natural-sciences\/special-themes\/global-climate-change\/\">Climate Change<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/culture\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=35097&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Languages<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco\/themes\/pcpd\/\">Post-Crisis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/social-and-human-sciences\/themes\/youth\/\">Youth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=12024&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Conventions &amp; Recommendations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ulis\/\">Documents<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uis.unesco.org\/ev.php?ID=2867_201&amp;ID2=DO_TOPIC\">Statistics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/photobank.unesco.org\/exec\/index.htm?lang=en\">Photos<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/publishing.unesco.org\/default.aspx?&amp;change=E\">Bookshop<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/media-services\/\">Media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/name-and-logo\/\">Name and Logo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/files\/19096\/13324060071Brochure_CR_2012_en.pdf\/Brochure%2BCR%2B2012%2Ben.pdf\">Human rights violation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, where's ESD, I wondered to myself. \u00a0 Then I remember a government minister in England once arguing that religious studies was not in the national curriculum because it was far too important. \u00a0Is that the case here, perhaps? \u00a0Is ESD so much of a priority that it doesn't need listing as a priority? \u00a0Plausible ...<\/p>\n<p>But I fear there is a more prosaic explanation. \u00a0If you click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/education\/themes\/leading-the-international-agenda\/education-for-sustainable-development\/\">Sustainable Development<\/a> you get taken to an ESD page. \u00a0So, it <em>is<\/em> a priority after all. \u00a0Phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the UNESCO End-of Decade conference website, you find this information in a page bottom strap line: Our priorities Africa Gender Equality Education for All Sustainable Development Ethics Intercultural Dialogue Knowledge Societies Popular topics World Heritage Water...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","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\/5336","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=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}