- Title
- Strengthening Environment and Sustainability Subject Knowledge Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities
- Creator
- Schudel, Ingrid J, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435045
- Identifier
- vital:73126
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928502241
- Identifier
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description
- This chapter serves as a positioning paper for the chapters that follow in which different environment and sustainability knowledge foci will be explored in the South African Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS). As a series of interconnected and cross-cutting complexities, environment and sustainability content knowledge has relevance for, and is widely distributed across, different phases and subjects in the school curriculum (see discussion of environmental content knowledge in Schudel and Lotz-Sisitka, Chapter 1; Lotz-Sisitka et al., Chapter 6; Msezane, Chapter 7). Knowledge that makes its way into education curricula and teaching is produced within the wider scientific context. Bernstein (2000), in his theory of the pedagogical device, refers to this as the ‘Field of Production’. A significant knowledge-producing community for sustainability concerns is the global change research community (international and national)(South Africa DST 2010). Examining their research outputs and discourses can provide important insights for the development of knowledge in what Bernstein names ‘regions’, where singular disciplines such as Science (eg climate sciences/biodiversity sciences/water sciences/health sciences), come together with other singular disciplines such as education. Bernstein suggests that a first level of knowledge recontextualisation in the Field of Production occurs in these regions (eg where environmental educators or science educators recontextualise the knowledge of scientists).
- Format
- 24 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- African Minds
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Schudel, I. and Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2021. Strengthening Environment and Sustainability Subject Knowledge: Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities. Teaching and Learning for Change, p.25
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- Rights
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