{"id":7441,"date":"2019-04-17T06:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2019-04-17T06:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:40:45","slug":"the-neu-debates-climate-change-and-proposes-environmental-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/04\/17\/the-neu-debates-climate-change-and-proposes-environmental-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The NEU debates climate change and proposes environmental education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you click <a href=\"https:\/\/neu.org.uk\/media\/3861\/view\">here<\/a> you will find Motion 8 which was passed at the\u00a0National Education Union [NEU] conference the other day. \u00a0Actually, you will find the motion and lots of amendments and so it's not clear just what was agreed in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The thrust, however, is to support the student days of action AND to call for curriculum innovation, although only, I note, in a \"fully-funded and staffed education system\". \u00a0This is obviously coded language which means that it's not going to be happening any time soon. \u00a0So, curriculum change \u2013 but not yet. \u00a0This is a weasel policy when we're faced with climate change \u00a0What will they say to the striking students who want a changed curriculum now?<\/p>\n<p>However, it's good to see a teacher union calling for environmental education \u2013 even if the phrase wasn't used \u2013 and even if the motions proposing it are blind to the progress that the UK has been making in both policy and practice. \u00a0I'm not aware of a country doing better than we are \u2013 are you? \u00a0For example, since 1990, the UK has reduced in GH gas emissions by over 40% while GDP has increased by 75%. \u00a0Who knew that was possible? \u00a0 Further, we have through the Climate Change Act (2008) a statutory target to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050 through 5-year carbon budgets. \u00a0I understand this is a widely respected model of policy. \u00a0This is not to be complacent \u2013 and I am not an optimist \u2013 just to add a bit of information to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you click here you will find Motion 8 which was passed at the\u00a0National Education Union [NEU] conference the other day. \u00a0Actually, you will find the motion and lots of amendments and so it's not clear just what was agreed...<\/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-7441","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\/7441","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=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}