- Title
- Supporting Student Teachers to Teach Catchment and River Management in Geography
- Creator
- Heath, Gavin, O’Donoghue, R
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435167
- Identifier
- vital:73135
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928502241
- Identifier
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description
- The inclusion of new environmental knowledge in the South African Geography Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) has meant that many student teachers are unprepared to teach a systemic process like catchment and river management, which concerns the management of water catchment basins and the rivers within. New environ-mental knowledge, by definition, involves systems thinking towards a grasp of social-ecological systems, notably cause and effect processes, and circularity within a system. A so-cial-ecological system is the complex relationship between the social and ecological processes on a parcel of land. The need for such systems thinking is implicit in the catchment and river management component of the CAPS (South Africa DBE 2011). The teaching of a case study of a catchment management system (which is the management system that governs a water catchment basin) has never been included in any previous curriculum. Water management has devel-oped on a widening scale into the 21st century in South Afri-ca, but there was little comprehensive data on catchment management systems until 2017. It was only in July 2017 that a draft catchment management strategy was published. Hence it is not surprising that no curriculum case studies ex-ist since there was no data to base them on (Meissner et al. 2017). An internet search in June 2020 uncovered no trace of any catchment management strategy for the more densely populated and, arguably, more significant eastern catch-ments of the country.
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- African Minds
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Heath, G. and O’Donoghue, R., 2021. Supporting Student Teachers to Teach Catchment and River Management in Geography. Teaching and Learning for Change, p.80
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- Rights
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