- Title
- Enhancing Capabilities of Life Sciences Teachers: Professional Development, Conversion Factors and Functionings in Teachers’ Professional Learning Communities
- Creator
- Tshiningayamwe, Sirkka, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435220
- Identifier
- vital:73139
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928502241
- Identifier
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description
- South Africa is rich in biodiversity and is home to about 95 000 known species (South Africa DEA 2014; SANBI 2019). Yet, compared to other southern African countries, the country has a high number of threatened species (Driver et al. 2012). Approximately 12 million South Africans depend on the natural environment to meet their needs. Among other factors, overharvesting of biological resources is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss in the country (South Africa DEA 2014; SANBI 2019). In line with assessment of biodiversity reports, Unesco (2018) notes that biodiversity loss is a global phenomenon. Emphasis in these reports is that over 7 billion people in the world rely on biodiversity to maintain and enhance their well-being. The realisation of biodiversity conservation as a global concern has resulted in various international conventions, policies, legislation and educational programmes that foreground biodiversity (Shava and Schudel 2013). Aligned with international trends, South Africa also has national policies and legislation aimed at protecting biodiversity. Among these is the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act which introduces a legal framework for governing sustainable development in the country, and includes a clause for all training and education programmes to integrate education for sustainable development (RSA 1998). Thus, like many other countries in the world, South Africa has incorporated biodiversity components in its ongoing curriculum reforms including in the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS).
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- African Minds
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Tshiningayamwe, S. and Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2021. Enhancing Capabilities of Life Sciences Teachers: Professional Development, Conversion Factors and Functionings in Teachers’ Professional Learning Communities. Teaching and Learning for Change, p.275
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- Publisher
- Rights
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