{"id":7261,"date":"2018-06-21T05:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2018-06-21T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:56:22","slug":"the-first-un-esd-award-for-the-ase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/06\/21\/the-first-un-esd-award-for-the-ase\/","title":{"rendered":"The first UN-ESD award for the ASE"},"content":{"rendered":"

No; UN-ESD is not some new desperate acronym invented by UNESCO. \u00a0Rather, it's an award to the UK's Association for Science Education for managing to ignore ESD for so long.<\/p>\n

Whilst some may think that the ASE's long and sustained disinterest in all things to do with sustainability is a job well done in holding the ground for proper science against passing, voguish fads and fancies, others are convinced that it\u00a0has had a negative effect on how English science teaching has been able to help young people understand such vital issues.<\/p>\n

I'm wondering if, at long last, things might be changing at Fortress ASE as there are attempts by members to have a Sustainability\/Global learning<\/em> theme at the 2019 Conference<\/a> in Birmingham. \u00a0A recent mailing said this:<\/p>\n

[ Sustainability\/Global learning]\u00a0<\/em>is such an important topic, as borne out by young people themselves when they embark on their university careers. \u00a0For seven\u00a0years in a row, 80 per cent of students have told the NUS survey \u00a0that they want their institutions to be doing more on sustainability, and 60 per cent want to learn more about it. \u00a0The\u00a0ASE\u00a0therefore is very keen to reflect this evidence and student interest in the \u00a0programme that we offer to STEM professionals and we hope that you will be able to offer a workshop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About time too. \u00a0Let's hope this is successful \u2013\u00a0just think what might have happened if the ASE's panjandrums had campaigned for the Blair government's sustainable schools agenda to be extended and introduced into the mainstream of school life rather than remaining at the margins with the result that it was so easily snuffed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No; UN-ESD is not some new desperate acronym invented by UNESCO. \u00a0Rather, it's an award to the UK's Association for Science Education for managing to ignore ESD for so long. Whilst some may think that the ASE's long and sustained...<\/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-7261","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\/7261","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=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}