{"id":7691,"date":"2020-04-23T09:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:48:36","slug":"initial-reflections-on-the-national-youth-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/04\/23\/initial-reflections-on-the-national-youth-climate-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial reflections on the National Youth Climate Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the summit yesterday c\/o zoom. \u00a0I didn't see all of it owing to commitments with my grandchildren, and so I'm looking forward to viewing the bits I missed.<\/p>\n<p>My main reservation about the event beforehand was with the number of speakers. \u00a0Nine! \u00a0ok, some were only speaking for 5 minutes (some 10 and others 15), but still. \u00a0Nine plus the intros and conclusions came to 2 hours 20 minutes. \u00a0In all, only 40 minutes were provided for 3 sets of questions and 3 breakout discussions.<\/p>\n<div>In the event, the 75 unanswered questions suggests that others may now feel that way as well. \u00a0I think that means fewer speakers next time. \u00a0I'd omit those who saw it as a chance to overly-promote themselves and\/or their organisations rather than do what (I imagine) they were asked to do.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I thought that the technology worked well. \u00a0I didn\u2019t appreciate beforehand how the breakout sessions would be handled. \u00a0I thought it was just for school groups and didn\u2019t know that those of us on-line would be in what felt like a small group. \u00a0It rather took me by surprise. \u00a0That might have been my fault entirely for not reading the instructions more carefully. \u00a0I\u2019m making this point because I feel that, had I been prepared, I\u2019d have participated more as the questions posed seemed good ones. \u00a0I felt that more time was certainly needed for these groups which are surely a key part of such on-line conferences.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As it was, I made one intervention. \u00a0This was in the break-out group talking about what we are doing for nature? \/ what is nature doing for us? \u00a0I just said that I'm constantly disappointed that, 60 years on from the start of environmental education, we still have to wonder what nature is doing for us. \u00a0I was asked why I thought this was. \u00a0I said it was because those who control the curriculum don't value that sort of fundamental knowledge and understanding. \u00a0It's somehow not important \u2013 just as learning how to cook nutritious meals isn't deemed important either, or learning about the grip the finance system has on our lives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Had I had longer I'd have said that a lot of environmental educators don't really think such basics it's important either, which got me round to thinking about whether Doug Knapp was right all along. \u00a0If life and lockdown permit, I shall continue this musing next week.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the summit yesterday c\/o zoom. \u00a0I didn't see all of it owing to commitments with my grandchildren, and so I'm looking forward to viewing the bits I missed. My main reservation about the event beforehand was with...<\/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-7691","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\/7691","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=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}