161: The Necessary Renewal
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 05:21
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Ocean research and advocacy organizations are alive and well. However, ocean education receives a mere fraction of overall budgets of these organizations. Educational programs are cut and staff positions remain unfilled. We are looking for solutions. If this situation is so dire, why are we not moving beyond understanding of parameters to get to very specific action and ideas?
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that the time has come to gather teachers and administrators together to take the necessary steps to bring ocean programs into the classroom--not just once but on a continuing basis. While the inhibiting factors are many, these same individuals must be empowered to take the necessary steps in approach and structure that will enable change. Leaders in ocean science and education, research and policy must accept this mandate for renewal--revitalization of not what we teach but how we teach it.
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Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
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Ocean research and advocacy organizations are alive and well. However, ocean education receives a mere fraction of overall budgets of these organizations. Educational programs are cut and staff positions remain unfilled. We are looking for solutions. If this situation is so dire, why are we not moving beyond understanding of parameters to get to very specific action and ideas?
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that the time has come to gather teachers and administrators together to take the necessary steps to bring ocean programs into the classroom--not just once but on a continuing basis. While the inhibiting factors are many, these same individuals must be empowered to take the necessary steps in approach and structure that will enable change. Leaders in ocean science and education, research and policy must accept this mandate for renewal--revitalization of not what we teach but how we teach it.
______________________________________________________________________
Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
Broadcast History
WERU-FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Maine Boats Homes & Harbors; 3CR Melbourne: Out of the Blue.
Transcript
161: The Necessary Renewal
I’m Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory.
When I attend lectures and conferences on ocean issues, the presenters usually fall into three categories: research/technology reporters, single focus organization promoters, and commentator/observers of ocean policy and trends. Listening, I would conclude that Ocean research is alive and well, with many new technologies in play -- satellites, remote underwater vehicles, floating and submerged data gathering systems, and visualization software that reveal a constant stream of new information and understanding. The same is true for the organizations. There is no question that the research institutes and non-governmental groups promoting ocean issues, new approaches, and conservation values have proliferated globally with specific successes and greater public awareness so devoutly to be wished. Finally...
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Additional Credits
Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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