{"id":937,"date":"2011-09-29T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=937"},"modified":"2011-09-29T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:27:22","slug":"john-f-disinger-an-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/09\/29\/john-f-disinger-an-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"John F Disinger \u2013 an appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John <a href=\"http:\/\/senr.osu.edu\/Alumni\/Membership\/Alumni_In_Memoriam.htm\">Disinger<\/a> was an American environmental educator, and scholar. \u00a0His was often a rational and clear voice amid the competing clamour and battle as one disposition or other tried to out-shout another persuasion, particularly in the shameful culture wars that afflicted environmental education in the 1990s. \u00a0I came across this quote the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026 though EE is ideally interdisciplinary \u2013 an eclectic assemblage of interacting disciplines \u2013 its practitioners typically approach it as if it were multidisciplinary \u2013 an eclectic assemblage of discrete disciplines.\u00a0 Because EE\u2019s practitioners typically are grounded in no more than one of the multiplicity of disciplines involved, logic leads them to approach EE through the intellectual filters of their own disciplines.\u00a0 Thus, practitioners in EE typically continue to talk past one another, rather than with one another\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite so. \u00a0It was true then, and remains so now, and even the spluttering rise of ESD, with its seductive appeal to an integrating holism, can do little to change matters. \u00a0The lion's lying down with the lamb may be some people's vision of harmony, but mine is where geography and science teachers begin to talk with each other with student learning in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Disinger was an American environmental educator, and scholar. \u00a0His was often a rational and clear voice amid the competing clamour and battle as one disposition or other tried to out-shout another persuasion, particularly in the shameful culture wars that...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}