{"id":7915,"date":"2021-06-11T06:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T08:17:53","slug":"changing-society-one-learner-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/06\/11\/changing-society-one-learner-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Society: one learner at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, I didn't pay much attention to the UNESCO World Confluence on ESD but I have been looking at the resulting\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/sites\/default\/files\/esdfor2030-berlin-declaration-en.pdf\">Berlin Declaration<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0\"Declaration\", I ask you! \u00a0The obvious and unsubtle aim here is to encourage us to think of this in the same way that we consider the iconic Tbilisi Declaration. \u00a0That was a defining moment in the history of the development of the field. \u00a0This is sheer hubris.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration presents numerous policies to transform learning and hence, it says, to transform society and the world. \u00a0Education, of course, does change society, but only slowly; ie, one learner at a time, and even then not all learners learn the same things. \u00a0This is an awkward truth and an essence of human learning. \u00a0I do wonder if Unesco knows this.<\/p>\n<p>The conference video message is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wDpBYUG_Zr0\">here<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em>I was struck by how many of the talking heads went off message by just saying that it was education that was important, rather than ESD. \u00a0More than 50% of them by my reckoning. \u00a0It was only the persistent Unesco-scripted voice-over that keeps the ESD word count up. \u00a0Surely heads will roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, I didn't pay much attention to the UNESCO World Confluence on ESD but I have been looking at the resulting\u00a0Berlin Declaration. \u00a0\"Declaration\", I ask you! \u00a0The obvious and unsubtle aim here is to encourage us to think 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-7915","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\/7915","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=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}