- Title
- Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436064
- Identifier
- vital:73224
- 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
- The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Af-rica is an extensive governmental intervention to provide work opportunities. The EPWP context is a significant site of green skills emergence in South Africa, especially at the elementary occupation level. The training associated with these pro-grammes has, to date, been largely top down, and little nu-anced understanding exists on the training and learning path-ways potential development for these green skills. There is a paradox between the top down approach to training, and the primarily regional implementation platforms of EPWP job op-portunities and their developmental intent. To reconcile this paradox, I draw on social ecosystemic skills research to probe the potential for such a conceptual and theoretical framework for guiding green skills research for the EPWP. I share some methodologies and insights developed in EPWP green skills research projects that offer potential for providing insight into a social ecosystemic model for green skills research in EPWP programmes. Social ecosystemic models in skills research seek to develop skills development approaches that forge stronger connections between working, living and learning, foregrounding regional, place-based models for skills planning that require interfacing with vertical facilitatory mechanisms and horizontal connectivities.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2019. Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies. In Green Skills Research in South Africa (pp. 113-127). Routledge
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