{"id":6581,"date":"2016-02-09T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2016-02-09T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T07:12:10","slug":"down-to-earth-on-the-gower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/02\/09\/down-to-earth-on-the-gower\/","title":{"rendered":"Down to Earth on the Gower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down to Earth [DtoE] is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtoearthproject.org.uk\/about\/our-story\/\">project<\/a> based on the Gower that started in 2005 and which provides\u00a0education programmes supporting young people and adults from very different backgrounds. \u00a0It says is a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"learner-centred approach centred developing well-being and a diverse range of accredited learning opportunities\u201d <\/em>and<\/p>\n<p><em>\"a different way of doing education and personal development\/well-being \u2013 one which not only supported people who were struggling to \u201cfit in\u201d to mainstream education or mainstream life, but which also embraced sustainability and demonstrated that it should be at the very centre of that approach\u2026\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds and looks a good outfit, and seems to have done something useful on the ground, judging by evaluations and testimonials. \u00a0It reminds me of projects you can find up and down the UK, mostly run by NGOs of one sort or another.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>is<\/em> it ESD? \u00a0I ask because I have read a paper (written by someone outwith the organisation) which\u00a0says that Down to Earth\u00a0tries to inverse the \u2018normal\u2019 way of doing ESD, and yet I can find no mention of ESD on the Down to Earth website. \u00a0There's another question about whether there is a normal way of doing ESD when hardly anyone does it, but that's another matter.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of when HMI pitched up to a school in Belfast one day and explained to the bemused staff that they\u2019d been doing ESD for the past year or so, when they\u2019d not heard of it before. \u00a0They just thought it was education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down to Earth [DtoE] is a project based on the Gower that started in 2005 and which provides\u00a0education programmes supporting young people and adults from very different backgrounds. \u00a0It says is a \"learner-centred approach centred developing well-being and a diverse...<\/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-6581","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\/6581","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=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}