If so minded, you can follow the official outpourings of WEEC 8 on Twitter: @WEEC2015 \u00a0\u2013 but you really should be outside. \u00a0Here are a few of the\u00a0highlights so far (and my indented comments ...)<\/p>\n
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson<\/strong><\/em> talks about the importance of education for all when it comes to EE and ESD<\/p>\n Maybe. \u00a0But ESD \/ EE \/ EFS \/ LSD \/ SDE \/ etc \/ etc have never been of any importance to those within UNESCO who are focused on EFA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Irina Bokova<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\"ESD must stand at the heart of the new Post 2015 development agenda.\"<\/p>\n This is not what UNESCO's new report on Global Citizenship Education [GCE] says \u2013 where there is no emphasis on ESD; indeed, hardly a mention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Job Bickling\u00a0<\/strong>Resistance to Cartesian thinking: \"To understand differently we need to be in the world differently\u00a0in the world differently ... less separation through abstract thinking and walls.\"<\/p>\n Is this statement so utterly profound as to shake neo-liberal capitalism's very foundations, or has careless proof-reading reduced it to nonsense? \u00a0My money's on the latter given that JB has form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Arjen Wals\u00a0<\/strong>\"<\/em>Critical thinking (e.g. questioning taken-for-granted values, behaviours and systems) and disrupting unsustainable systems \/ routines is critical.\"<\/p>\n Well, up to a point, because that's what IS \/ ISIS \/ ISIL \/ whatever<\/em> thinks as well. \u00a0They have infantry and tanks, and we only have UNESCO, which doesn't seem fair. \u00a0The point is that such critical\u00a0thinking has to have a value base that takes people and planet, and their inter-relationship, seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mirian Vilela<\/strong>\u00a0says that the peace agenda is part of the sustainability agenda<\/p>\n Indeed, who's against peace, you might wonder? \u00a0Me for one, if the cost\u00a0is too high. \u00a0Odd, isn't it that a sustainable world always seems to have to be a peaceful one. \u00a0But suppose that\u00a0sustainability needs\u00a0protecting against the intolerant? \u00a0 I think it's time to reach for the\u00a0Belloc:<\/p>\n Pale Ebeneezer thought it wrong to fight,<\/em><\/p>\n But Roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If so minded, you can follow the official outpourings of WEEC 8 on Twitter: @WEEC2015 \u00a0\u2013 but you really should be outside. \u00a0Here are a few of the\u00a0highlights so far (and my indented comments ...) Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson talks about...<\/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":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","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=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}