{"id":6052,"date":"2014-07-11T05:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2014-07-11T05:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T05:10:41","slug":"so-whos-your-esd-educator-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/11\/so-whos-your-esd-educator-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"So, who's your ESD educator of the Decade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question has been posed by EfS Scotland which says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #505050\">November 2014 marks the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development which aimed to \u2018integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning\u2019. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the achievements of Scotland\u2019s educators, SQA [<strong>1<\/strong>]\u00a0has created a one-off Star Award for individuals and centres that have contributed to progress on the aims of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the Scottish Government\u2019s associated Action Plans.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations are\u00a0open to schools, colleges and training providers,\u00a0involved in the delivery of SQA qualifications, for this SQA Star Award \u2013 Sustainable Development Educator of the Decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a pity the list of institutions that can apply is so restricted as surely the Scottish government itself is well\u00a0qualified for the award. \u00a0After all, the way it has allowed\u00a0turbines and pylons to be planted across the Highlands in pursuit of its green future is an education in itself.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<strong>1<\/strong>]\u00a0<a href=\"www.sqa.org.uk\">SQA<\/a> is the <em>Scottish Qualifications Authority<\/em>, and you can see details of all their awards <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1mgikCf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question has been posed by EfS Scotland which says: November 2014 marks the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development which aimed to \u2018integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects...<\/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-6052","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\/6052","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=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}