{"id":7551,"date":"2019-09-09T07:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2019-09-09T14:32:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:32:22","slug":"more-backward-defence-from-the-dfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/09\/09\/more-backward-defence-from-the-dfe\/","title":{"rendered":"More backward defence strokes from the DfE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see in today's <a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/september-9th-report\/\">NAEE weekly update<\/a> that DfE was asked over the Summer whether it had any plans to require teacher training institutions to cover sustainability issues. \u00a0DfE said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\"... there are no plans to amend the Teachers\u2019 Standards. \u00a0The Teacher\u2019s Standards and the Framework of Core Content for Initial Teacher Training are the \u2018core\u2019 minimum entitlements for trainee teachers, and not intended to specify the full curriculum offered to trainees. \u00a0Therefore training providers are free to design and deliver their courses as they are the experts and they can choose to prioritise issues such as sustainability.\"<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">DfE is nothing if not consistent. \u00a0Sadly, however, our \"<span class=\"\">training providers\" are not experts when it comes to sustainability and the pedagogy associated with it \u2013 and DfE knows this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I seem to write about this stance every 3 years. \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/01\/27\/another-dfe-attempt-at-a-straight-bat\/\">this<\/a> from 2016, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/10\/07\/a-straight-bat-from-the-dfe\/\">this<\/a> from 2013.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see in today's NAEE weekly update that DfE was asked over the Summer whether it had any plans to require teacher training institutions to cover sustainability issues. \u00a0DfE said: \"... there are no plans to amend the Teachers\u2019 Standards....<\/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-7551","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\/7551","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=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}