{"id":6634,"date":"2016-05-13T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2016-05-13T05:09:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:09:07","slug":"what-should-academics-be-promoting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/05\/13\/what-should-academics-be-promoting\/","title":{"rendered":"What should academics be promoting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been coming across a lot of articles recently that seem to take it for granted that universities, and the academics within them, should be \"promoting sustainable development\". \u00a0Sometimes this is hedged around with caveats and thoughts of a more nuanced sort; at other times, universities are made to seem as if they're selling soap power, so unsubtle is the message.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these seem to come from those whose goal in life seems to be to tell academics what to do \u2013 sadly, universities in the UK are stuffed with such people\u00a0these days \u2013 but some\u00a0come from academics themselves who, you might think, might\u00a0know better.<\/p>\n<p>So, what should academics promote, if anything? \u00a0Here's my starter for 10,\u00a0in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>honesty<\/li>\n<li>personal integrity<\/li>\n<li>a respect for evidence<\/li>\n<li>intellectual curiosity<\/li>\n<li>skepticism<\/li>\n<li>an open \u00a0reflexiveness towards their own ideas (and prejudices)<\/li>\n<li>...<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been coming across a lot of articles recently that seem to take it for granted that universities, and the academics within them, should be \"promoting sustainable development\". \u00a0Sometimes this is hedged around with caveats and thoughts of a more...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","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=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}