{"id":6477,"date":"2015-10-22T05:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2015-10-22T05:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T05:31:30","slug":"global-ee-just-dont-mention-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/10\/22\/global-ee-just-dont-mention-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Global EE \u2013 just don't mention economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalee.net\">MOOC<\/a> from Cornell\u00a0University:\u00a0<em>Environmental Education: A transdisciplinary approach to addressing wicked problems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The goal of this course is to create an environmental education \u201ctrading zone\u201d\u2014 an online space where scholars and students gather to learn about multiple disciplines that shed light on how to improve environmental quality and change environmental behaviors. \u00a0Each of the lectures, readings, discussions, and case studies will focus on the implications of a particular discipline for environmental education, as well as what environmental education has to contribute to related disciplines and sectors. \u00a0Learn about how environmental education, environmental governance, environmental psychology, environmental sociology and other disciplines can work together to address \u2018wicked problems,\u2019 not readily addressed by working in disciplinary silos.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you notice that phrase <em>trading zone<\/em>? \u00a0No wonder it had scare quotes round it, as this sounds rather like a market place, which will be enough to get anti-neo-liberal activistas in a lather. \u00a0And did you notice the discipline most notably absent from the list? \u00a0<em>Economics<\/em>. \u00a0Why does no one understand that this discipline is at the heart of most of the\u00a0wickedness that this programme sets out to address? \u00a0A baffling blind spot.<\/p>\n<p>This mysterious absence of economics from environmental education is, of course, mirrored by the lack of much consideration of environment in economics education, as I have noted before with reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-crasheconomics.com\/economics-education-and-unlearning\/\">Manchester's<\/a> the post-crash economics society. \u00a0Steve Gough is one of the few people who writes about environmental education and economic thinking, and his latest book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/9780415659482\"><em>Education, Nature, and Society<\/em> <\/a>raises many issues. The Steady State folk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/steadystate.org\/the-future-history-of-political-economy-part-1\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DalyNews%20%28The%20Daly%20News%29\">Daly News<\/a>\u00a0write about economics and the environment all the time. \u00a0I hope all these ideas manage to infiltrate the Cornell course.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to register, just go <a href=\"https:\/\/cornell.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_8BN1OaezQjRXDSt\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a new\u00a0MOOC from Cornell\u00a0University:\u00a0Environmental Education: A transdisciplinary approach to addressing wicked problems. 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