- Title
- Mainstreaming education for sustainable development: Elaborating the role of position-practice systems using seven laminations of scale
- Creator
- Agbedahin, Adesuwa V, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182428
- Identifier
- vital:43829
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2019.1602975"
- Description
- The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 proposes that Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) should be included at all levels of education, known as ‘mainstreaming’. However, there is little guidance as to how to achieve this. ESD mainstreaming demands more than simply a technical policy transfer; it also requires attention to the position-practice systems of involved agents. This article critically assesses the mainstreaming of ESD in the case of university educators in Africa who have participated in the International Training Programme on ESD in higher education. It clarifies their position-practice systems in terms of Bhaskar’s seven laminations of scale. This article therefore provides a detailed description of the ways in which agents' position-practice systems enable and constrain ESD mainstreaming. It also demonstrates that a critical realist perspective can contribute towards the understanding and achievement of transformation towards sustainability and can help to ensure the flourishing of both current and future generations.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (21pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Critical Realism, Agbedahin, A.V. and Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2019. Mainstreaming education for sustainable development: elaborating the role of position-practice systems using seven laminations of scale. Journal of Critical Realism, 18(2), pp.103-122, Journal of Critical Realism volume 18 number 2 p. 103 2019 1572-5138
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- Publisher
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- Rights
- Open Access
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Distinguished Professor)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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