{"id":7726,"date":"2020-06-24T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2020-06-24T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:53:10","slug":"talking-scotland-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/06\/24\/talking-scotland-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Scotland down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that\u00a0<em><strong>Teach the Future\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>has set out\u00a0its policy asks for Scotland. \u00a0They broadly mirror the three English ones, but there's\u00a0an additional ask of \u201c<em>Increased priority for sustainability in school inspections and publicly influencing educational rankings<\/em>\u201d. \u00a0 As NAEE <a href=\"https:\/\/naee.org.uk\/june-22nd-2020\/\">notes<\/a>, the campaign in Scotland will be fronted by Scottish Youth Climate Strike and NUS Scotland. \u00a0They will be writing to the First Minister to request a meeting, although I guess they might be fobbed off with her deputy.<\/p>\n<p>I've seen their carefully-worded documentation which spells out all the policy initiatives in Scotland to support, ESD \/ LSD \/ EE \/ LFS \/ EFS \/ CCE \/ ETC and the SDGs. \u00a0This is a much longer list for Scotland than it is for England (or perhaps even Wales) because there has been what seems to be genuine commitment from the Scottish government to get schools taking the issues seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The problem that\u00a0<em><strong>Teach the Future\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>might have lies in the necessity of their being (carefully) critical of the progress made (ie, the lack of it). \u00a0They have to do this because that's the reality on the ground. \u00a0It's as if the expedition to scale the heights of Ben Nevis has got stuck in the foothills. \u00a0Mind you, in England, we're still looking for maps.<\/p>\n<p>The problem <em><strong>Teach the Future<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0has is that in \u00fcber-nationalist circles, to criticise a Scottish government policy is to criticise Scotland, and leads to accusations of \"talking Scotland down\". \u00a0My fingers are crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that\u00a0Teach the Future\u00a0has set out\u00a0its policy asks for Scotland. \u00a0They broadly mirror the three English ones, but there's\u00a0an additional ask of \u201cIncreased priority for sustainability in school inspections and publicly influencing educational rankings\u201d. \u00a0 As NAEE notes, the...<\/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-7726","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\/7726","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=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}