{"id":6924,"date":"2017-03-24T07:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2017-03-24T07:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:26:37","slug":"a-weec-whose-days-are-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/24\/a-weec-whose-days-are-long\/","title":{"rendered":"a WEEC whose days are long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News came the other day of a\u00a0day-long workshop for\u00a0WEEC participants on\u00a0the question of\u00a0what environmental education is, should be, and either might or must become. \u00a0Such a\u00a0\"<em>is, should be, and either might or must become<\/em>\" confection can only have been dreamt up by a committee tired of arguing. \u00a0The blurb continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drawing on local to international perspectives, expert contributions and debate, we invite participants to re-engage this question at a critical juncture in the politics of the environment. \u00a0The workshop uses three distinct markers from historic to contemporary international policy developments to engage these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is\u00a040 years since the UN\u2019s Tbilisi Declaration\u00a0on the framework, principles, and guidelines for environmental education at all levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>since the end of the UN\u2019s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, environmental education has been positioned as central to a wide range of initiatives, including the\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Action Programme, and Climate Change Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on May 26, 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme secured over 200 national signatories to a resolution entitled, \u201cInvesting in human capacity for sustainable development through environmental education and training\u201d during the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The workshop is for\u00a0environmental educators, activists, scholars and researchers. \u00a0It will include\u00a0invited panels and participatory discussion sessions\u00a0that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>investigate\u00a0how we understand environmental education, including its origins, turning points and contexts for development;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>debate\u00a0key considerations from the past to present and into the future, from the worlds of practice, policy and scholarship; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>strategize\u00a0for impact across a diversity of possible approaches, new directions and future scenarios for the field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, however, you have to go to WEEC in order to participate. \u00a0The email that brought these glad tidings came with a photograph of a woman with her face buried deep in her shawl,\u00a0clearly distressed at this news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News came the other day of a\u00a0day-long workshop for\u00a0WEEC participants on\u00a0the question of\u00a0what environmental education is, should be, and either might or must become. \u00a0Such a\u00a0\"is, should be, and either might or must become\" confection can only have been dreamt...<\/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-6924","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\/6924","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=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}