Responsive Curriculum Design and Implementation: Contextualising and Recontextualising Content in the Case of Climate Change EducationTraining for Southern African Transfrontier Conservation Area Practitioners
- Mukute, Mutizwa, Pesanayi, Tichaona
- Authors: Mukute, Mutizwa , Pesanayi, Tichaona
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , bulletin
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436427 , vital:73271 , ISBN bulletin , https://www.saqa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAQA-Bulletin-2017-1.pdf#page=37
- Description: This paper discusses how the climate change education/training needs of Park Managers, Ecologists, and Community Development Officers in Southern African Development Community (SADC) Transfrontier Conser-vation Areas (TFCAs) were established through contextual profiling. It subsequently analyses how a curriculum that was designed in response to a contextual profiling process was recontextualised during implementa-tion by the SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme (REEP), with support from the German Federal Enterprise for International Coop-eration (GIZ). The paper’s purpose is to trace the trajectory of contextual-ised curriculum development and implementation with a view to identify-ing how the twin concepts of contextual profiling and recontextualisation were utilised and lessons were learned. The paper has potential value for educators/ trainers interested in increasing the relevance of protected area workplace learning and its congruence to learners’ realities. It also has relevance for learning pathways in the environment and sustaninable development arena and elsewhere.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Mukute, Mutizwa , Pesanayi, Tichaona
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , bulletin
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436427 , vital:73271 , ISBN bulletin , https://www.saqa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAQA-Bulletin-2017-1.pdf#page=37
- Description: This paper discusses how the climate change education/training needs of Park Managers, Ecologists, and Community Development Officers in Southern African Development Community (SADC) Transfrontier Conser-vation Areas (TFCAs) were established through contextual profiling. It subsequently analyses how a curriculum that was designed in response to a contextual profiling process was recontextualised during implementa-tion by the SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme (REEP), with support from the German Federal Enterprise for International Coop-eration (GIZ). The paper’s purpose is to trace the trajectory of contextual-ised curriculum development and implementation with a view to identify-ing how the twin concepts of contextual profiling and recontextualisation were utilised and lessons were learned. The paper has potential value for educators/ trainers interested in increasing the relevance of protected area workplace learning and its congruence to learners’ realities. It also has relevance for learning pathways in the environment and sustaninable development arena and elsewhere.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Transgressing the norm: Transformative agency in community-based learning for sustainability in southern African contexts
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Mukute, Mutizwa, Chikunda, Charles, Baloi, Aristides, Pesanayi, Tichaona V
- Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Mukute, Mutizwa , Chikunda, Charles , Baloi, Aristides , Pesanayi, Tichaona V
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127204 , vital:35977 , https://10.1007/s11159-017-9689-3
- Description: Environment and sustainability education processes are often oriented to change and transformation, and frequently involve the emergence of new forms of human activity. However, not much is known about how such change emerges from the learning process, or how it contributes to the development of transformative agency in community contexts. The authors of this article present four cross-case perspectives of expansive learning and transformative agency development in community-based education in southern Africa, studying communities pursuing new activities that are more socially just and sustainable. The four cases of community learning and transformative agency focus on the following activities: (1) sustainable agriculture in Lesotho; (2) seed saving and rainwater harvesting in Zimbabwe; (3) community-based irrigation scheme management in Mozambique; and (4) biodiversity conservation co-management in South Africa. The case studies all draw on cultural-historical activity theory to guide learning and change processes, especially third-generation cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), which emphasises expansive learning in collectives across interacting activity systems. CHAT researchers, such as the authors of this article, argue that expansive learning can lead to the emergence of transformative agency. The authors extend their transformative agency analysis to probe if and how expansive learning might also facilitate instances of transgressing norms – viewed here as embedded practices which need to be reframed and changed in order for sustainability to emerge.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Mukute, Mutizwa , Chikunda, Charles , Baloi, Aristides , Pesanayi, Tichaona V
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127204 , vital:35977 , https://10.1007/s11159-017-9689-3
- Description: Environment and sustainability education processes are often oriented to change and transformation, and frequently involve the emergence of new forms of human activity. However, not much is known about how such change emerges from the learning process, or how it contributes to the development of transformative agency in community contexts. The authors of this article present four cross-case perspectives of expansive learning and transformative agency development in community-based education in southern Africa, studying communities pursuing new activities that are more socially just and sustainable. The four cases of community learning and transformative agency focus on the following activities: (1) sustainable agriculture in Lesotho; (2) seed saving and rainwater harvesting in Zimbabwe; (3) community-based irrigation scheme management in Mozambique; and (4) biodiversity conservation co-management in South Africa. The case studies all draw on cultural-historical activity theory to guide learning and change processes, especially third-generation cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), which emphasises expansive learning in collectives across interacting activity systems. CHAT researchers, such as the authors of this article, argue that expansive learning can lead to the emergence of transformative agency. The authors extend their transformative agency analysis to probe if and how expansive learning might also facilitate instances of transgressing norms – viewed here as embedded practices which need to be reframed and changed in order for sustainability to emerge.
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- Date Issued: 2017
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