- Title
- Formative interventionist research generating iterative mediation processes in a vocational education and training learning network
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Pesanayi, Tichaona
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435998
- Identifier
- vital:73219
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780429279362
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429279362-13/synthesis-elaboration-critical-realist-methodology-green-skills-research-eureta-rosenberg
- Description
- This chapter addresses a research problem identified in the vocational agricultural learning system where there was a gap in vocational education and training knowledge flow from research institutions to knowledge users. The chapter develops a theoretical framework for dealing with the problem of ‘knowledge flow’ in vocational education and training settings. The problem emerges around the uptake and use of relevant research-based knowledge resources on rainwater harvesting and conservation practices for agricultural education and training focused on small-scale farmers and household food producers in South Africa. These resources, despite their con-temporary relevance, were not being used in agricultural col-leges or in the related agricultural learning support system. Drawing on a social ecosystemic approach to knowledge flow and mediation, the chapter surfaces five iterative mediation processes developed via a generative, formative interventionist research process over a five year period (Lotz-Sisitka et al. 2016; Pesanayi, 2019; cf. Chapter 8) that facilitated the development of a regional learning network which enabled vertical facilitatory processes and horizontal connectivities that impact-ed on farmers’ food production system, as well as the agricultural learning system. We illuminate key features of these as important for supporting knowledge flow within a regional social ecosystemic framework for skills development.
- Format
- 18 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H. and Pesanayi, T., 2019. Formative interventionist research generating iterative mediation processes in a vocational education and training learning network. In Green Skills Research in South Africa (pp. 157-174). Routledge
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