I noted the other day that the\u00a0GLP management group is not exactly balanced. \u00a0It comprises: Pearson, the Geographical Association, UCL Institute of Education, Oxfam UK, the Royal Geographical Society, the\u00a0Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), and Think Global. \u00a0This is two sets of geographers, two global-focused charities, a university development \/ global research outfit, the SSAT (which can't even manage to admit to being a member), and the ubiquitous Pearson \u2013 and DfID, of course, the government's global development ministry.<\/p>\n
No wonder, then, there is a biased focus towards social justice and towards a worldview that sees the smoothing out of conflicts **<\/strong>\u00a0as the way forward. \u00a0This is a value, apparently.<\/p>\n Thus, given that the sustainable development goals deal with all aspects of sustainability (more or less), where are the NGOs that are concerned with the biosphere? \u00a0Why isn't WWF involved in the GLP, or the Wildlife Trusts, RSPB, WWT? \u00a0Did they all turn down the chance? \u00a0Or were they just not invited to the party? \u00a0Does anyone know?<\/p>\n ...................................................<\/p>\n **<\/strong> The GLP says: \"By using global learning to enrich the curriculum, GLP schools are finding that global learning is helping to ... foster values such as respect and empathy.\" \u00a0This seems just a quasi-Jungian\u00a0reconciliation and accommodation of opposites. \u00a0There will surely have to be more to sustainability than respect and empathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I noted the other day that the\u00a0GLP management group is not exactly balanced. \u00a0It comprises: Pearson, the Geographical Association, UCL Institute of Education, Oxfam UK, the Royal Geographical Society, the\u00a0Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), and Think Global. \u00a0This is...<\/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-7101","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\/7101","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=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}