- Title
- Integrating scholastic and practice-centred epistemologies in a post-graduate professional degree
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Ellery, Karen
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69489
- Identifier
- vital:29542
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC37710
- Description
- This article argues for the integration of both scholastic and practice-centred epistemologies within an Environmental Education (EE) post-graduate curriculum that is oriented towards sustainability and socio-ecological justice. It is an interpretive study based on an in-depth analysis of five assignments by four scholars registered for the M.Ed. EE course at Rhodes University where a contextualised, reflexive research process, based in a work-place context, forms the integrative pedagogic tool. Analyses indicate that involving students in such a process, with close support and guidance, is an effective means of developing both scholastic and practical epistemologies. It is concluded that research-led integration of scholastic and practice-centred epistemologies in a transformational curriculum has the potential to provide epistemological access to the academy, advance knowledge within disciplines, and challenge the dominance of scholastic knowledge in higher education settings.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Higher Education, Lotz-Sisitka, H. and Ellery, K., 2011. Integrating scholastic and practice-centred epistemologies in a post-graduate professional degree. South African Journal of Higher Education, 25(4), pp.710-724., South African Journal of Higher Education volume 25 number 4 710 724 January 2011 1011-3487
- Rights
- author
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the South African Journal of Higher Education Open Access Policy (http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe/about/editorialPolicies#openAccessPolicy)
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Ellery, Karen (Dr)
RU Department of Environmental Science
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Distinguished Professor)
RU Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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