{"id":6396,"date":"2015-07-24T05:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2015-07-24T05:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:43:36","slug":"weec-8-was-a-success-its-now-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/07\/24\/weec-8-was-a-success-its-now-official\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEC 8 was a success \u2013 it's now official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! \u00a0What a relief; I was beginning to wonder ... . \u00a0Actually, it was a \"big success\", according to a co-chair of\u00a0the congress \u2013 that's\u00a0how these international evaluations\u00a0tend to go. \u00a0You can read the full detail on the <em>Transformative Learning<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/transformativelearning.nl\/2015\/07\/05\/weec2015-in-gothenburg-a-big-success\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I read the report, this caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"I was privileged to give a keynote during the opening session. \u00a0In my talk ... I referred to this increased public unrest about climate change, micro-plastics in oceans and bodies, etc. but also to the hijacking of identity and colonisation of the mind for business interests (don\u2019t accept those cookies, or check that \u2018I agree\u2019 box too quickly), the increased yearning for meaning over consumption, and the need for educating and learning for a transition towards a healthier, more equitable, ecologically viable, morally defensible and peaceful world. ...\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so, I thought. \u00a0But, as I got to the end of the piece, I saw that\u00a0<em>Transformative Learning<\/em> is now carrying\u00a0adverts. \u00a0As <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/108\/40\/7.html\">St Matthew<\/a><\/em> (7:1-5) noted a while back, there's surely an issue here of motes and beams here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! \u00a0What a relief; I was beginning to wonder ... . \u00a0Actually, it was a \"big success\", according to a co-chair of\u00a0the congress \u2013 that's\u00a0how these international evaluations\u00a0tend to go. \u00a0You can read the full detail on the Transformative Learning...<\/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-6396","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\/6396","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=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}