{"id":7653,"date":"2020-02-27T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:35:12","slug":"teach-the-future-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/02\/27\/teach-the-future-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach the Future in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I noted yesterday,\u00a0I went to the Teach the Future<\/strong> parliamentary reception. \u00a0I thought that this was a great success in terms of the event itself. \u00a0It worked well with a really excellent student speech, I thought. \u00a0 I was less impressed by some of the politicians\u2019 talks, but that could be my jaundiced perspective. \u00a0There were a good few MPs there and many young people, and it was good to see them talking together. \u00a0I never got the chance to talk to my MP because she was so busy talking with students, as she should have been.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The key issue is so what happens next. \u00a0Teach the Future has a meeting with Gavin Williamson on March 9th at which they will put their case for a \"government-commissioned and independent review into how the whole of the English formal education system is preparing students for the climate emergency and ecological crisis \u2013 in terms of knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies\u201d (as well as the other issues they want to see happening).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s important to note in this that they are not asking for curriculum change itself, but for this review into the extent to which the curriculum is fit for\u00a0<\/span>the climate emergency and ecological crisis we face. \u00a0This might make it easier for government \/ DfE to say ok and to be seen to take young people seriously (a political priority for them), even though DfE stonewalling seems equally possible \u2013 if not more likely given their track record.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I should like to see (and contribute to) such an enquiry, so fingers crossed. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, <\/span>ere are some media coverage of the event:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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  • desmog.co.uk\/2020\/02\/26\/our-education-system-unfit-purpose-students-call-climate-education-reform<\/li>\n
  • theconversation.com\/to-prepare-climate-strikers-for-the-future-we-need-to-rewrite-the-history-books-131857<\/li>\n
  • thestudentroom.co.uk\/news\/students-ask-parliament-to-teach-climate-change-issues-in-schools<\/li>\n
  • wonkette.com\/uk-teens-tired-of-waiting-for-climate-education-so-they-drafted-a-law-to-require-it<\/li>\n
  • englishforums.com\/news\/educated-people-harms-the-environment<\/li>\n
  • theecologist.org\/2020\/feb\/27\/students-take-climate-education-own-hands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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