- Title
- Enabling environmental and sustainability education in South Africa’s national curriculum: Context, culture and learner aspirations for agency
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437486
- Identifier
- vital:73388
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1594549458
- Description
- This chapter describes the broad agenda for cultural and social change in South Africa, as introduced by post-apartheid policy development. It briefly describes how environment and sustainability questions have been incorporated into the National Curriculum Statements, alongside a concern for culture, context and indigenous knowledges. The chapter considers some of the contemporary concerns with the disjuncture be-tween policy and practice, and highlights learner aspirations for agency, and associated expectations for education. The chapter draws its orien-tation from the Rhodes University Environmental Education and Sus-tainability's' Environmental Learning and Curriculum' research pro-gramme. This programme is funded by the National Research Founda-tion and aims to inform curriculum change in South Africa. It programme incorporates a strand on indigenous knowledge and curriculum.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- NOVA Science Publishers
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2006. Enabling environmental and sustainability education in South Africa’s national curriculum: Context, culture and learner aspirations for agency. Environmental education and geographical education for sustainability: Cultural contexts, pp.321-334
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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