{"id":5996,"date":"2014-04-24T07:21:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2014-04-24T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T09:06:55","slug":"it-seems-that-climate-change-is-slowly-moving-from-the-headlines-to-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/04\/24\/it-seems-that-climate-change-is-slowly-moving-from-the-headlines-to-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"It seems that \"climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/21\/business\/energy-environment\/setbacks-aside-climate-change-is-finding-its-way-into-the-worlds-classrooms.html?_r=1\">International New York Times<\/a> has a feature on (international) ESD. \u00a0It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"From Mauritius to Manitoba, <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">climate change<\/a> is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom. \u00a0Schools around the world are beginning to tackle the difficult issue of global warming, teaching students how the planet is changing and encouraging them to think about what they can do to help slow that process.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It only features two folk from the UK\u00a0\u2013 Michael\u00a0Gove gets a couple of mentions \u2013 neither very positive \u2013 with\u00a017 year old Esha Marwaha getting all the approbation for her on-line opposition to his policies \u2013 which shows, if nothing else, the power of eco-citizenly activity.<\/p>\n<p>Marwaha is quoted as saying: \u201cFor me education has been something that\u2019s opened my eyes completely to everything around me.\u201d \u00a0Of her climate activism, she added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have done it had it not been for my classroom experiences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so. \u00a0Those very familiar with ESD and England's education system will spot the inaccuracies and simplifications in the report, and no doubt feel suitably upset\u00a0that\u00a0they were not themselves quoted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, the International New York Times has a feature on (international) ESD. \u00a0It begins: \"From Mauritius to Manitoba, climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom. \u00a0Schools around the world are beginning to tackle 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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","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\/5996","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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}