{"id":7854,"date":"2021-01-24T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2021-01-24T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T10:09:17","slug":"the-problem-of-esd-groupthink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/01\/24\/the-problem-of-esd-groupthink\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem of ESD Groupthink"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason the QAA's latest ESD Guidance<\/a> is such an egregious irrelevance must have something to do with the narrow range of people whom it choses to be advised by. \u00a0Here are the job titles of the university-based members of the advisory group responsible for the guidance:<\/p>\n

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  • Associate Professor in Education for Sustainable Development<\/li>\n
  • Professor of Environmental and Sustainable Design for the Built Environment<\/li>\n
  • Professor of Outdoor, Environmental & Sustainability Education<\/li>\n
  • Deputy Head (Education), School of Geography and Environmental Science<\/li>\n
  • Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Environment and Sustainability<\/li>\n
  • Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development<\/li>\n
  • Professor of Environmental Education<\/li>\n
  • Professor of Sustainability and Computer Systems<\/li>\n
  • Professor of Sustainability in Higher Education<\/li>\n
  • Director of Sustainability<\/li>\n
  • University Director of Learning and Teaching<\/li>\n
  • Associate Professor Sustainable Education\n
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    All very eminent and distinguished people, of course, but there's a pattern here.<\/p>\n

    Where are the academic subject specialists in, say, economics, international development, chemical \/ electrical engineering, politics, biotechnology, agriculture, and management, and the many other areas where teaching about sustainability is a daily event? \u00a0UK universities are full of such people, but none were on the advisory group. \u00a0You have to wonder why.<\/p>\n

    Might it be because none were true believers \u2013 that is, members of that select, trusted, elite, insider group who can see the ESD light shimmering forth across the darkling plain?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The reason the QAA's latest ESD Guidance is such an egregious irrelevance must have something to do with the narrow range of people whom it choses to be advised by. \u00a0Here are the job titles of the university-based members 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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854","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=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}