- Title
- Framing learning needs assessments for sustainability policy practices
- Creator
- Rosenberg, Eureta
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436016
- Identifier
- vital:73220
- 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
- A common (green) skills planning objective is to identify the learning needs of workers in particular sectors, programmes or organisations, in order to provide them with appropriate learn-ing opportunities. This chapter describes a design and concep-tual framing for learning needs assessments focused on sus-tainability or green economy policy practitioners. Measures for achieving credible results include design features for building consensus around the findings, but also a sound conceptual framing of learning needs. The chapter provides pointers for working critically with the notion of competencies, exploring both the value and the limitations of the concept, and framing it as relational transformational agency entailing technical, rela-tional and ethical affordances among collectives involved in sustainability policy-practice. The chapter draws on the Green Economy Learning Assessment for South Africa, which exlored the learning needs of sustainability practitioners in pol-icy contexts related to sustainable transport, renewable energy procurement and water resource management, among others. The chapter shares examples of competencies identified in these contexts, and concludes with a few curriculum pointers, in anticipation of the next chapter’s focus on the educational provider’s perspective. A common (green) skills planning objective is to identify the learning needs of workers in particular sectors, programmes or organisations, in order to provide them with appropriate learn-ing opportunities. This chapter describes a design and concep-tual framing for learning needs assessments focused on sus-tainability or green economy policy practitioners. Measures for achieving credible results include design features for building consensus around the findings, but also a sound conceptual framing of learning needs. The chapter provides pointers for working critically with the notion of competencies, exploring both the value and the limitations of the concept, and framing it as relational transformational agency entailing technical, rela-tional and ethical affordances among collectives involved in sustainability policy-practice. The chapter draws on the Green Economy Learning Assessment for South Africa, which exlored the learning needs of sustainability practitioners in pol-icy contexts related to sustainable transport, renewable energy procurement and water resource management, among others. The chapter shares examples of competencies identified in these contexts, and concludes with a few curriculum pointers, in anticipation of the next chapter’s focus on the educational provider’s perspective.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Rosenberg, E., 2019. Framing learning needs assessments for sustainability policy practices. In Green Skills Research in South Africa (pp. 128-142). Routledge
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