{"id":6828,"date":"2016-11-22T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2016-11-22T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:45:31","slug":"more-than-just-jesuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/11\/22\/more-than-just-jesuits\/","title":{"rendered":"More than just Jesuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/11\/21\/give-me-a-child-until-theyre-three\/\">yesterday<\/a> about Jesuitical tendencies in Liverpool that were on show at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust event last week, but there was more to the conference than that. \u00a0I liked the way that the whole thing was organised with time well balanced between plenary and small groups, and the groups each focused around one of the 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/cprtrust.org.uk\/about_cprt\/cprt-priorities-in-action\/\">priorities<\/a> that the Cambridge Primary Review Trust saw for the development of the curriculum. \u00a0Sustainability was one of these. \u00a0The others were:\u00a0Equity \u2013 Voice \u2013 Community \u2013 Aims \u2013 Curriculum \u2013 Pedagogy \u2013\u00a0Assessment. \u00a0At the heart of it all was a talk by Robin Alexander which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinalexander.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Alexander-CPRT-keynote-final.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were two sessions focused on sustainability \/ global learning, and, along with Ben Ballin and Fran Martin, I made a contribution to the second of these. \u00a0Fran and Ben discussed the work they'd been involved in with other countries (including\u00a0Spain\u00a0and The Gambia). \u00a0Ben talked about a pedagogy of global learning; Fran, about the inter-cultural dimension of teachers' learning about global issues of hunger, poverty and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>I added some context about the SDGs, and I'll set out what I said later in the week. \u00a0Of course, not everyone thinks that the SDGs are a good idea \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdg5\">Goal<\/a> 5, for example, <em>Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls<\/em> hardly gets a fair hearing in many parts of this benighted world. \u00a0I got to wondering whether there are any of the goals that everyone might agree with. \u00a0I came up with <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdg6\">Goal<\/a> 6:\u00a0<em>Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all<\/em>. \u00a0But is that right? \u00a0Surely, the devil is in the detail, and would everyone really agree with the \"<em>sustainable management<\/em>\" part of this? \u00a0That sounds like a good global learning discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about Jesuitical tendencies in Liverpool that were on show at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust event last week, but there was more to the conference than that. \u00a0I liked the way that the whole thing was organised...<\/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-6828","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\/6828","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=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}