{"id":7366,"date":"2018-12-19T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2018-12-19T06:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:50:05","slug":"requiem-for-a-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/12\/19\/requiem-for-a-golden-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for a golden age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about when there might have been a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7350&amp;action=edit\">golden age<\/a>\u00a0[*] for environmental education in the UK, and in that post I did not come to any conclusion. \u00a0When I spoke at the LEEF event a few days afterwards I did suggest that \u2013 taking the idea of a golden age seriously \u2013 it would have been from about 1965 to 1979.<\/p>\n<p>There was a gasp (albeit a small one) when I said this. \u00a0In part I think that this was because quite a few in the room weren't alive then, and in part it was because few there knew anything about this period. \u00a0Having done quite a bit of writing on this question recently (not for the blog), I am more than ever convinced that it all went downhill after that point; slowly at first and then more speedily. \u00a0Only recently has there been something of a climb-back and the SDGs might help that recovery along. \u00a0This is a positive feature given the competition from global learning and ESD.<\/p>\n<p>The second of these is clearly a busted flush, and the first is now limping around c\/o the British Council. \u00a0Maybe another golden age beckons. \u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>..................................................<\/p>\n<p>[*] I feel as if I should offer an alternative metaphor; rather than golden age perhaps high water mark is more apt, given climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Christmas. \u00a0Back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about when there might have been a golden age\u00a0[*] for environmental education in the UK, and in that post I did not come to any conclusion. \u00a0When I spoke at the LEEF event a few days afterwards...<\/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-7366","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\/7366","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=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}