{"id":7593,"date":"2019-11-15T09:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2019-11-15T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:39:40","slug":"studies-in-italian-school-system-anarchy-part-437","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/11\/15\/studies-in-italian-school-system-anarchy-part-437\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies in Italian school system anarchy Part 437"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see (thanks to the weekly round-up from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/november-11th-2019\/\">NAEE<\/a>) that Reuters is reporting that from next September, Italy\u00a0will make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study climate change and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to scoff at such command and control statements, especially given the anarchic state of the Italian political economy \u2013 and I remember a similar statement being made 25 years ago about environmental education in Italian schools being mandated by the government. \u00a0At the time, an Italian environmental educator said: \"and therefore this will happen\". \u00a0I laughed at the easy cause and effect assumptions expressed.<\/p>\n<p>And I'm still tempted to do so now, despite the fact that the Education Minister said: \u00a0\"The entire ministry is being changed to make sustainability and climate the centre of the education model.\" \u00a0It is easy to say this, but hard to do because of baked-in assumptions by civil servants and those who run schools about what education is for.<\/p>\n<div>Anyway, as the current minister said that there will only be\u00a033 hours per year \"devoted to climate change issues\" that hardly seems revolutionary as 33 hours per year is less than an hour a week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The minister also said that\u00a0\"many traditional subjects, such as geography, mathematics and physics [will be] studied from the perspective of sustainable development\" which means that for the vast majority of the week they won't be. \u00a0That is, life will be as normal. \u00a0As such, I suspect that little of substance will actually happen.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see (thanks to the weekly round-up from\u00a0NAEE) that Reuters is reporting that from next September, Italy\u00a0will make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study climate change and sustainable development. It is easy to scoff at such command and control statements,...<\/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-7593","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\/7593","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=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}