- Title
- Emergent Curriculum and Sustainability Competencies in Environmental Learning
- Creator
- Mkhabela, Antonia T, Schudel, Ingrid J
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435112
- Identifier
- vital:73131
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928502241
- Identifier
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description
- This study was influenced by the South African National Diagnostic Report on Learner Performance in the 2012 final examinations, which highlighted learner struggles with ‘higher order thinking skills such as application, problem solving, critical thinking, analysis and evaluation’ (South Africa DBE 2013: 16). These are skills typically associated with essay questions in examinations. Another issue reported in the abovementioned document was poorly answered essay questions on Environmental Studies, ‘giving the impression that this topic, which is scheduled towards the end of the year, was neglected by both teachers and learners’ (p. 121). The problem of weak higher order thinking skills, compounded by difficulty with Environmental Studies, informed part of the research interest for this study: namely, how higher order thinking is engaged when reflecting on environmental issues in Life Sciences classrooms (specifically required for the Environmental Studies topic of ‘human impact’).
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- African Minds
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mkhabela, A.T. and Schudel, I., Emergent Curriculum and Sustainability Competencies in Environmental Learning. Teaching and Learning for Change, p.223
- Rights
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the OAPEN Statement (https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23440)
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