{"id":6970,"date":"2017-05-24T05:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2017-05-24T05:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:55:01","slug":"all-those-manifestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/05\/24\/all-those-manifestos\/","title":{"rendered":"All those manifestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been reading the election manifestos \u2013 well, three of them (and a sort of manifesto from the Greens). \u00a0I did some searches for the number of times the following came up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>education for sustainable development \/ sustainability<\/li>\n<li>education for sustainability<\/li>\n<li>environmental education<\/li>\n<li>ESD \/ EfS \/ LSD\/ SDE \/ etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The answers are 0, 0, 0 and 0. \u00a0Could it be that all these parties think that ESD etc is so mainstreamed now that there's no need to mention it? \u00a0Or, that ...?<\/p>\n<p>There's nothing more mainstream than curriculum, so how many mentions did that get?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberal Democrats 10 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Labour 6 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Conservatives 7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Green 0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Conservatives had an emphasis on technical education and on the education provided through the Overseas Aid Budget, particularly for girls. \u00a0Labour talked about a National Education Service [NES] and the removal of fees from (seemingly) everything. \u00a0Are PhD studentships going to be free as well, do you suppose \u2013 and yoga? \u00a0The\u00a0LDs set out plans for an educational standards authority [ESA] which sounds like an awful combination of SCAA and the CQC. \u00a0The Greens want to introduce political and active citizenship education into schools, but say nothing else about what should be taught. \u00a0In point of fact, none of them suggest that the curriculum is in need of more thinking, or that it might be more than the plaything of civil servants. \u00a0A pity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been reading the election manifestos \u2013 well, three of them (and a sort of manifesto from the Greens). \u00a0I did some searches for the number of times the following came up: education for sustainable development \/ sustainability education for...<\/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-6970","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\/6970","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=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}