{"id":6327,"date":"2015-05-19T06:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2015-05-19T06:33:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:33:52","slug":"what-happened-when-dave-asked-gareth-a-corker-of-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/19\/what-happened-when-dave-asked-gareth-a-corker-of-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened when Dave asked Gareth \"a corker of a question\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAUC 's\u00a0<em>Food for Thought<\/em> last\u00a0Friday afternoon was about a question posed to blogger Gareth Kane ( <em>Ask Gareth<\/em> ...) by\u00a0Dave Moreman,\u00a0a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. \u00a0Moreman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrainfirma.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/practising-what-you-dont-preach.html\">asked<\/a>: \u00a0<em>How can I teach sustainability when I live unsustainably?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first thing Kane\u00a0did was to change the question to:\u00a0\"<em>How can you ask others to behave more sustainably when your own lifestyle is far from perfect?<\/em>\" which is not quite what Moreman\u00a0asked. \u00a0Although Kane's three main points ...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actions are more potent than words<\/li>\n<li>Don't preach<\/li>\n<li>Don't fear the idiots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>... are sound, they are not particularly focused on teaching, or working in a university, and so were not all that helpful.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what you would have said. \u00a0My first thought was to wonder whether Moreman was actually \"teaching sustainability\"; whatever\u00a0the phrase means. \u00a0Kane assumed it was all about behaviour change, but I doubt it \u2013 Moreman is a senior lecturer in a\u00a0university geography\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffs.ac.uk\/academic_depts\/sciences\/subjects\/environment\/geography_staff.jsp\">department<\/a>, after all, so it might have been about students learning all sorts of things. \u00a0Anyway, he\u00a0seemed happy enough with the response he got from Kane, judging by his subsequent comments.<\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, rather disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAUC 's\u00a0Food for Thought last\u00a0Friday afternoon was about a question posed to blogger Gareth Kane ( Ask Gareth ...) by\u00a0Dave Moreman,\u00a0a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. \u00a0Moreman\u00a0asked: \u00a0How can I teach sustainability when I live unsustainably? The first thing Kane\u00a0did...<\/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-6327","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\/6327","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=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}