{"id":6467,"date":"2015-10-14T00:45:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2015-10-14T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:45:34","slug":"geep-4-and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/10\/14\/geep-4-and-so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"GEEP \u2013 4 \u2013 and so it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm about to go down for a GEEP (pronounced Jeep<\/em> it seems) working breakfast, which \u2013 at 0830 \u2013 is far too late for me, as I saw the sun rise over the Downtown skyline quite a while back.<\/p>\n

People have travelled a long way for this: Australia (2), New Zealand (2), Japan (2), Taiwan (8), and Vietnam, UAE, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Kenya, Botswana, Cambodia, the UK, Indonesia & India, with the bloke from the Netherlands coming\u00a0via\u00a0Australia. \u00a0All that CO2. \u00a0And, whilst I know that the marginal carbon cost of an extra passenger on an almost full flight is essentially zero, that's not the point. \u00a0I hope the carbon bill for all the improved environmental education that will ensue will be worth it.<\/p>\n

I was lucky in my richly diverse small group as it comprised\u00a0Paul Ofei-Manu [Ghana \/ Japan], Roath Sith [Cambodia], Laura Kickey [USA], Mahesh Pradhan [Nepal \/ Kenya], Yung-Chiech Yu [Taiwan], Justin Harris [USA] and me from\u00a0the UK. \u00a0Between us we represented two environmental protection agencies, a national wildlife federation, UNEP, an institute for global environmental strategies, a ministry of the environment, and a university. \u00a0We all seem to agree that GEEP needs to have greater clarity about what it\u2019s for \/ about \/ etc, and what realistic objectives might be, before it can do much more.<\/p>\n

We were asked to identify 3 to 5 interesting things about EE in\u00a0our countries. \u00a0This was tricky, even when I looked at the long list that I'd written before I came. \u00a0My response was:<\/p>\n

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  1. The UK has 4 separate educational jurisdictions that do not communicate with each other<\/li>\n
  2. There is no UK-wide governmental support for EE \/ ESD etc, but there is for global learning initiatives<\/li>\n
  3. Many NGOs support a rich EE in interested schools<\/li>\n
  4. EE flourishes where school leaders are supportive and see its merits<\/li>\n
  5. EE has survived the ESD Decade<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It was the last of these (and not the second) that gave rise to the most comment and discussion.<\/p>\n

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