{"id":7850,"date":"2021-06-22T07:46:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7850"},"modified":"2021-06-22T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:46:17","slug":"its-a-record-for-environmental-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/06\/22\/its-a-record-for-environmental-education\/","title":{"rendered":"It's a record for environmental education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-copy\">\n<p>Where I searched the\u00a0UK <a href=\"http:\/\/discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk\">National Archive<\/a>\u00a0from 1960 to the present\u00a0for the phrase \"<em>environmental education<\/em>\" I came up with 26 entries. \u00a0These started in 1972 with items about environmental education in Bournemouth, Hertfordshire and Doncaster. \u00a0Prominent entries related to the Belgrade and Tbilisi conferences. \u00a0Most entries related to the 1970s, and there were none since 1986. \u00a0There was one mention of CEE, but none of NAEE.<\/p>\n<p>A trawl for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/catalogue\/searchresults.asp?SearchInit=0&amp;txtsearchterm=ESD&amp;txtfirstdate=&amp;txtlastdate=&amp;txtrestriction=&amp;hdnsorttype=Reference&amp;image1.x=34&amp;image1.y=9&amp;image1=GO\">ESD<\/a> gave more results (161) but, <em>prime facie<\/em>, none relate to education and sustainability; UNESCO please note. \u00a0Many refer to the Manpower Services Commission's Employment Service Division, and some to the UK Atomic Energy Authority (and its predecessors). \u00a0A surprising number were reports from our ambassadors to the Baltic states, and one referred to someone's initials in a divorce case. \u00a0Unsurprisingly, perhaps, given all this, there were no entries for \"education for sustainable development\" or \"education for sustainability\". \u00a0Perhaps in 25 years time ...<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \"sustainable development\" yields 52 records and \"sustainable development goals\" none. \u00a0What on Earth is going on?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I searched the\u00a0UK National Archive\u00a0from 1960 to the present\u00a0for the phrase \"environmental education\" I came up with 26 entries. \u00a0These started in 1972 with items about environmental education in Bournemouth, Hertfordshire and Doncaster. \u00a0Prominent entries related to the Belgrade...<\/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-7850","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\/7850","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=7850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}