{"id":6177,"date":"2014-12-17T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2014-12-17T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T08:30:08","slug":"separate-tracks-real-synergy-or-a-strategic-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/12\/17\/separate-tracks-real-synergy-or-a-strategic-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate tracks, real synergy or a strategic error?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Separate Tracks or Real Synergy? Achieving a Closer Relationship between Education and SD, Post-2015<\/strong><\/em>, is the title of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/jsd.sagepub.com\/content\/8\/2\/89.abstract\">article<\/a>\u00a0by Stephen Sterling based upon a longer concept paper: \u2018Winning the Future We Want \u2014 the pivotal role of education and learning\u2019 that was\u00a0commissioned by UNESCO for the World ESD Conference\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling says that the brief for the UNESCO\u00a0paper was to make a strong case for ESD as a critically important means of realizing sustainable development goals, and was based upon UNESCO\u2019s analysis that the sustainable development discourse \u2013 including high-level reports associated with the post-2015 agenda \u2013 largely doesn't recognize the central role that learning and education must play in supporting individual and social change. \u00a0The commissioned paper covers a broad sweep including the place and role of education and learning in the context of the need for urgent social change. \u00a0There is an outline of relevant ESD theory including learning strategies, a desk-based critical review of the post-2015 debate, and an outline of the role of ESD as a key to sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Separate Tracks ...<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a shortened and updated version of the UNESCO conference paper \u2013 the main points of which can be seen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/article.php?story=20141126162856455\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, well, I'm pretty\u00a0sure that, in time, all this focus on\u00a0an increasingly reified ESD, which only a tiny minority of educators and activists know about, will come to be seen as as distraction from the main business of changing learning experiences to bring sustainability into focus. \u00a0Only the narrow-minded and those with personal interests to foist on others, see that ESD is the way to do this. \u00a0For example, if you're a teacher with an interest in sustainability that you want to introduce to your students, you don't need to master ESD theory (whatever that is) before you are\u00a0able to do this \u2013 do you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate Tracks or Real Synergy? Achieving a Closer Relationship between Education and SD, Post-2015, is the title of a new article\u00a0by Stephen Sterling based upon a longer concept paper: \u2018Winning the Future We Want \u2014 the pivotal role of education...<\/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-6177","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\/6177","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=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}