{"id":6195,"date":"2015-02-13T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:17:16","slug":"unesco-illustrates-the-gulf-between-efa-and-esd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/02\/13\/unesco-illustrates-the-gulf-between-efa-and-esd\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO illustrates the gulf between EFA and ESD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Paris, on Thursday 19, to\u00a0Friday, 20 February, there will be a UNESCO Regional Ministerial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.unesco.org\/events\/regional-ministerial-conference-education-post-2015\">Conference<\/a> on Education Post-2015. \u00a0This is a \"category 5 advisory committee\", and is organized by UNESCO for Member States of the Eastern and Western European and North American region (Group I and II countries). \u00a02015 is the target date for the achievement of the six Education for All (EFA) goals and the MDGs, and consultations on the future education agenda will culminate in the 2015 World Education Forum (WEF), to\u00a0be organized by UNESCO and South\u00a0Korea in May. \u00a0This is one of a number of\u00a0regional conferences that\u00a0provide a platform for countries of the region to review and analyze their EFA experience, develop a regional perspective on the emerging post-2015 education agenda, and reflect on future priorities and strategies to achieve the future agenda.<\/p>\n<p>As a close textual analysis of the webpage shows, there are no references to ESD. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/education-21st-century\">theme page<\/a> for this meeting is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/education-21st-century\">here<\/a>,\u00a0where there are references to the 11\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/education\/themes\/\">themes<\/a> of education. \u00a0These do include ESD, of course, and\u00a0UNESCO shows how seriously it takes it by placing it on a par with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/ict-education\">ICT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What else do you really need to know? \u00a0And still people wonder why the ESD Decade was such a flop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Paris, on Thursday 19, to\u00a0Friday, 20 February, there will be a UNESCO Regional Ministerial Conference on Education Post-2015. \u00a0This is a \"category 5 advisory committee\", and is organized by UNESCO for Member States of the Eastern and Western European...<\/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-6195","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\/6195","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=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}