- Title
- South Africa: Strengthening responses to sustainable development policy and legislation
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437382
- Identifier
- vital:73374
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4020-8194-1
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8194-1_23
- Description
- A key objective of the newly established South African national qualifi-cations framework (NQF) is to enable the transformation of society, fol-lowing the demise of apartheid in 1994. Through the South African Constitution, which enshrines the right to a healthy environment for all citizens, and the sustainable utilization of resources for current and fu-ture generations (RSA, 1996), South African society adopted a devel-opment path that is oriented towards sustainable development. The de-velopment and implementation of the NQF (established by the South African Qualifications Authority Act in 1995) has involved various initia-tives to design and develop qualifications that respond to the environ-mental rights and sustainable development clauses of the Constitution and associated national policy. The past 10 years have been an active period for reconceptualizing education and training in South Africa, par-ticularly in the previously neglected1 area of workplacebased learning. New structures were put in place to develop and approve flexible and portable qualifications in unit-standard format, new service delivery structures and mechanisms have been established which allow for flex-ible forms of programme delivery and new learning programmes have been designed to respond to the outcomes-based, flexible format of the NQF. The NQF has created new opportunities for lifelong learning and new possibilities for those formerly disadvantaged by apartheid exclu-sionary policies and systems to gain access to education and training, and recognition for their skills and competencies. It has also created the space for new innovative programmes to emerge that respond to emerging issues in society, such as increased environmental degradation, increased health risks and new social and economic challenges.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H. and Olvitt, L., 2009. South Africa: Strengthening responses to sustainable development policy and legislation. In Work, learning and sustainable development: Opportunities and challenges (pp. 319-328). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
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