{"id":6889,"date":"2017-02-08T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2017-02-10T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T06:10:12","slug":"tbilisi-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/02\/08\/tbilisi-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Tbilisi + 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been re-reading the Tbilisi Declaration which remains more inspiring than many a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0003\/000327\/032763eo.pd\">document<\/a> produced recently. \u00a0It's 40 years old this year, so we can expect celebrations, etc. \u00a0Though what exactly is to be celebrated remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by all those who attended from the UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>John Hudson<\/strong><\/em>, Deputy Secretary for Primary Education,\u00a0Department of Education and Science\u00a0(Head of Delegation)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>George Willan<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Department of Education and Science<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Patricia McCarthy<\/strong><\/em>, International Relations,\u00a0Department of Education and Science<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>John Robins<\/strong><\/em>, Assistant Secretary,\u00a0Department of the Environment<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Peter Fletcher<\/strong><\/em>, Foreign and Commonwealth Office UN\u00a0Department<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Peter Forrest<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0HMI\u00a0(England)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Patricia Heatley<\/strong><\/em>, HMI (Northern Ireland)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chris Gayford<\/strong><\/em>, Council for Environmental Education<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keith Wheeler<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Council for Environmental Education \/ Town and Country Planning Association<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A total of 9 from the DES, the Foreign Office, the Environment Dept, HMI (and two educators) illustrates the breadth of interest in the meeting \u2013 and in environmental education. \u00a0Compare this with the few\u00a0who\u00a0pitched up to Bonn for the Decade meeting. \u00a0Happy days. \u00a0NB, I counted\u00a08 delegates from Iraq at this meeting. \u00a0Happier days there as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been re-reading the Tbilisi Declaration which remains more inspiring than many a\u00a0document produced recently. \u00a0It's 40 years old this year, so we can expect celebrations, etc. \u00a0Though what exactly is to be celebrated remains unclear. I was struck by...<\/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-6889","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\/6889","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=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}