{"id":7709,"date":"2020-06-01T05:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2020-06-01T05:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:36:40","slug":"teaching-the-future-knowledge-and-apprehension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/06\/01\/teaching-the-future-knowledge-and-apprehension\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the Future: knowledge, concern and taking action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm keeping an eye on what <strong>Teach the Future<\/strong> has been doing recently \u2013 making good use of the covid-19 crisis to re-organise itself by the look of it. \u00a0It's now got a core (or should that be cadre?) of campaign organisers, and you can see who they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthefuture.uk\/post\/introducing-our-new-campaign-staff\">here<\/a>. \u00a0They should not be underestimated. \u00a0The two who represented it on OCR's advisory group on its proposed Natural History GCSE were eloquent and effective.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by this recent post:\u00a0<span class=\"post-title__text blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color\"><span class=\"blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthefuture.uk\/post\/young-people-understand-the-reality-of-climate-and-ecological-breakdown-often-better-than-adults\">Young people understand the reality of climate and ecological breakdown, often better than adults<\/a>. \u00a0It got me wondering how true this is.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The word \"often\" is useful, of course, as a limiter. \u00a0But \"... better than\u00a0<em>most<\/em> adults\" would have helped as well, as would have <em>\"Many<\/em>\u00a0young people ...\" \u00a0Indeed, putting in\u00a0<em>many<\/em> and\u00a0<em>most<\/em> would have eliminated the need for\u00a0<em>often.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it was the word \"reality\" that got me wondering: \"the\u00a0<em>reality<\/em> of climate change\". \u00a0This has so many potential meanings: <em>reality<\/em> on the ground for people and for other species and for habitats; <em>reality<\/em> in the atmosphere for weather and climate systems; <em>reality<\/em> for scientists and others who gather and analyse data; <em>reality<\/em> for governments who must grapple with the future possibilities; etc.<\/p>\n<p>And there I wondered about \"understand\". \u00a0I don't think that the writer meant understand in a purely (and limited) cognitive sense as in understand what a greenhouse gas is, that CO2, NO and CH4 are greenhouse gases, or what carbon capture and storage is; it's more in the sense of appreciating the difficulties that climate change will likely cause. \u00a0This is a mix of the cognitive and the affective: knowledge, concern and taking action.<\/p>\n<p>I think that a key point that <strong>Teach the Future\u00a0<\/strong>makes is\u00a0that in any educational setting, <em>understanding<\/em> needs to be seen as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm keeping an eye on what Teach the Future has been doing recently \u2013 making good use of the covid-19 crisis to re-organise itself by the look of it. \u00a0It's now got a core (or should that be cadre?) of...<\/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-7709","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\/7709","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=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}