{"id":610,"date":"2011-06-01T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=610"},"modified":"2011-06-01T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:09:20","slug":"uneces-miracle-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/01\/uneces-miracle-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"UNECE's Miracle Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=359\">before<\/a> about what I see as the ineffectiveness of UNECE's work on ESD, so I approach its latest outpourings with my normal skepticism. \u00a0After much gestation, it has at last given birth to its <em>Competences in ESD for educators<\/em>. \u00a0 This nativity is accompanied by the usual flummery about how expert it is<\/p>\n<p>The mandate for this exercise was to prepare:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[a] General recommendations for policymakers, so as to provide them with a tool to integrate ESD into relevant policy documents with a view to creating an enabling environment for the development of competences across all sectors of education, with particular emphasis on formal education;<\/p>\n<p>[b] A range of core competences in ESD for educators, including defining these, as feasible, to serve as a tool to facilitate the integration of ESD into all educational programmes at all levels, as well as guidelines for the development of these competences among educators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's all too easy to poke fun at UNECE and its grandiloquent self-importance, but this should not stop one doing it. \u00a0However, it does behove us all to give this latest infant a chance to overcome its parentage and show what it's made of. \u00a0In the unlikely event that you've not seen it (I swear I must have been sent 16 copies), Here\u00a0it is: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/files\/\/www\/vhosts\/bathblogs\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/103\/files\/2011\/06\/UNECE.doc\">UNECE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. \u00a0I shall try to do so, and to see its value, and will return to comment on it later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written before about what I see as the ineffectiveness of UNECE's work on ESD, so I approach its latest outpourings with my normal skepticism. \u00a0After much gestation, it has at last given birth to its Competences in ESD...<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}