Teaching and Learning for Change

Like many national
curricula around the world, South Africa’s curriculum is rich in
environment and sustainability content. Despite this, environmental
teaching and learning can be challenging for educators. This comes at a
time when Sustainable Development Goal 4 via Target 4.7 requires
governments to integrate Education for Sustainable Development into
national education systems.

Teaching and Learning for Change is an
exploration of how teachers and teacher educators engage environment
and sustainability content knowledge, methods, and assessment practices
in ways that support a call for quality education in support of
ecological and social justice and sustainability.

The chapters
evolve from a ten-year research programme led out of the DSI/NRF SARChI
Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems working with national
partners in the Fundisa for Change programme and the UNESCO
Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme. They show the integration
of education for sustainable development in teacher professional
development and curricula in schools in South Africa. They reveal how
university-based researchers, teachers and teacher educators have made
theoretically and contextually reasoned choices about their lives and
their teaching in response to calls for a more sustainable world in
which education must play a role.

Teaching and Learning for Change
will be of interest to education policymakers in government, advisors
and educators in educational and environmental departments, NGOs and
other institutions. It will also be of interest to teacher educators,
teachers and researchers in education more generally, and environment
and sustainability education specifically.