I was struck by a message sent recently to the EAUC Mailbase:<\/p>\n
The writer wondered if EAUC members might\u00a0provide examples of awareness initiatives they have done to educate students that their programmes do include sustainable development.<\/p>\n
The dilemma is understandable, but is it just a question of communications between university and students? \u00a0Could it be that the language used by the UN (never its greatest strength) is the problem? \u00a0Or maybe there are so many targets that the poor student gets understandably lost. \u00a0Perhaps the splitting of the 17 Goals into a gazillion targets means that the essential whole of the issue is never to be appreciated.<\/p>\n
Or, maybe the problem lies in the course structure, materials and approach? \u00a0In a course on X, is the part on sustainability just tagged on in a way that might be seen as peripheral? \u00a0Or is it smeared across the degree so thinly as to be invisible? \u00a0\u2013 as opposed, say, to being knitted into core aspects that render it visible, impossible to avoid, and clearly important? \u00a0[*<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Or could it be that students are not experiencing sustainable development in the course in the terms that they understand it or want to understand it?<\/p>\n If this was my problem, I'd not be writing to EAUC, I'd be talking to the students.<\/p>\n ...................................<\/p>\n *\u00a0<\/strong>Tagged, smeared, or knitted? \u00a0There are other metaphors available: stitched, woven, emulsified, embroidered, ... . \u00a0All seem domestic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was struck by a message sent recently to the EAUC Mailbase: \"Through a programme analysis I have shown that the majority of our college programmes include aspects that are easily linked to the UN SDGs targets in some shape...<\/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-7711","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\/7711","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=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}