{"id":7948,"date":"2021-08-26T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2021-08-26T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:50:07","slug":"teach-the-futures-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/08\/26\/teach-the-futures-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach the Future's Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm a critical friend of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/teachthefuture.uk\">Teach the Future<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and sit on its Adult Advisory Group. \u00a0I had this email the other week that set out\u00a0some of the things that Teach the Future has done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hosted a reception in the UK parliament<\/li>\n<li>Wrote a draft education bill (for England)<\/li>\n<li>Been on national TV<\/li>\n<li>Been quoted in the House of Lords<\/li>\n<li>Met with an English Education Minister<\/li>\n<li>Influenced government spending on school retrofit<\/li>\n<li>Gained over 150 supporting organisations<\/li>\n<li>Launched a Scottish branch of the campaign<\/li>\n<li>Met with the Deputy First Minister of Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Lobbied MSPs<\/li>\n<li>Submitted a representation to the UK Government\u2019s Comprehensive Spending Review<\/li>\n<li>Launched a Welsh branch of the campaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this is true and not to be discounted.<\/p>\n<p>But there's a difference between just doing things and making a real difference, so what has Teach the Future actually achieved? \u00a0I think there is something positive to say about this, but I've not seen it set out clearly yet.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this is a distinction that could be questioned for many an organisation \u2013 and not just those involved in what might loosely be described as environmental education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm a critical friend of\u00a0Teach the Future\u00a0and sit on its Adult Advisory Group. \u00a0I had this email the other week that set out\u00a0some of the things that Teach the Future has done: Hosted a reception in the UK parliament Wrote...<\/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-7948","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\/7948","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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}