"We're just teaching in a vacuum". Teaching in context in the learning for sustainability project
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438817 , vital:73502 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137417"
- Description: Learning for Sustainability is a Danish-funded project for supporting teachers in environmental education curriculum development, in the Departments of Education in the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. The Rhodes University Environmental Education Unit is responsible for its evaluation. Instead of establishing baseline data against which to compare the project outcomes, the researchers are developing contextual profiles towards a deepening understanding of the contexts in which the teachers work, and to judge the appropriateness of project activities. This paper introduces insights from the developing profile based on questionnaires; interviews; observations during project meetings and school visits; and document analysis. The emerging issues pertain to curriculum and professional development in environmental education, within the context of educational policy transformation. In particular the paper highlights the role of context in responsive reform initiatives.
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- Date Issued: 1998
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438817 , vital:73502 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137417"
- Description: Learning for Sustainability is a Danish-funded project for supporting teachers in environmental education curriculum development, in the Departments of Education in the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. The Rhodes University Environmental Education Unit is responsible for its evaluation. Instead of establishing baseline data against which to compare the project outcomes, the researchers are developing contextual profiles towards a deepening understanding of the contexts in which the teachers work, and to judge the appropriateness of project activities. This paper introduces insights from the developing profile based on questionnaires; interviews; observations during project meetings and school visits; and document analysis. The emerging issues pertain to curriculum and professional development in environmental education, within the context of educational policy transformation. In particular the paper highlights the role of context in responsive reform initiatives.
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- Date Issued: 1998
Editorial
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438706 , vital:73493 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137460"
- Description: This edition of the SAJEE focuses on EEASA' s conference-and-workshops held in July 1995, at Kearsney College in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. ln the 1994 issue we invited readers to explore Progress and Paradox, as a conference theme reflecting a new perspective on education and environment. We received a very positive response and the conference featured an excellent range of papers. From amongst the many worthy contributions the reviewers selected those papers that addressed the theme most directly, for publication in this, arguably EEASA' s best journal yet.
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- Date Issued: 1995
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438706 , vital:73493 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137460"
- Description: This edition of the SAJEE focuses on EEASA' s conference-and-workshops held in July 1995, at Kearsney College in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. ln the 1994 issue we invited readers to explore Progress and Paradox, as a conference theme reflecting a new perspective on education and environment. We received a very positive response and the conference featured an excellent range of papers. From amongst the many worthy contributions the reviewers selected those papers that addressed the theme most directly, for publication in this, arguably EEASA' s best journal yet.
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- Date Issued: 1995
Editorial
- Janse van Rensburg, Eureta, Irwin, Patrick R
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta , Irwin, Patrick R
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438694 , vital:73491 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137493"
- Description: In 1993 environmental education was looking forward to the first democratic election in South Africa - now it is in the midst of 'reconstructionand-development'. For many local environmental educators, this means a contrihution, in one way or another, to the new national curriculum. But the challenges of 1993 continue: processes of participative curriculum development are forcing us to clarify different orientations to environmental education in our efforts to shape a curriculum based on the best of our various visions.
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- Date Issued: 1994
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta , Irwin, Patrick R
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438694 , vital:73491 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137493"
- Description: In 1993 environmental education was looking forward to the first democratic election in South Africa - now it is in the midst of 'reconstructionand-development'. For many local environmental educators, this means a contrihution, in one way or another, to the new national curriculum. But the challenges of 1993 continue: processes of participative curriculum development are forcing us to clarify different orientations to environmental education in our efforts to shape a curriculum based on the best of our various visions.
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- Date Issued: 1994
Research priorities for environmental education in southern Africa: Preliminary report
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438781 , vital:73499 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137480"
- Description: In this preliminary research report I introduce initial interpretations of the results of a recently completed study on research priorities in southern Africa. The study has been sponsored by Murray and Roberts, Rhodes University and the HNRE (Human and Natural Resources in the Environment) Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council.
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- Date Issued: 1994
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438781 , vital:73499 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137480"
- Description: In this preliminary research report I introduce initial interpretations of the results of a recently completed study on research priorities in southern Africa. The study has been sponsored by Murray and Roberts, Rhodes University and the HNRE (Human and Natural Resources in the Environment) Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council.
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- Date Issued: 1994
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