Fine if we want students to remember 'information' and 'facts' (which is what the article seemed to focus on). Like most of us, I guess, I'm interested in my how my students can think critically and analytically and, for GEP in particular, what they understand and think about the big political themes and issues. I don't mind if, after having done my course, they don't remember the precise details of UNCHE (way before almost all of them were born), or who the first three UNEP EDs were. I do get cross, though, if they say that UNFCCC and UNCBD were negotiated AT Rio. But I do hope that they walk away with an awareness of the debates around whether and if so how 'mega-conferences' contribute to global environmental governance, or the way in which tensions between developed and developing countries were highlighted by the UNCHE process, or what the debates are about institutional reform etc etc etc.
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