The Environmental Learning Research Centre is the home of a vibrant and diverse community of scholars and environmental education practitioners, and forms a regional hub of environmental learning innovation. 

The centre hosts a postgraduate research programme of between 50-60 Master and PhD scholars. It runs a Masters in Education programme on Regenerative African Futures and Education for Sustainable Development, and a leading PhD programme in this field on the African continent.  It also teaches an innovative Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainability Learning.

The ELRC works with local, national, regional and international partners to develop research-informed and research-led short and certificate courses. The research and teaching programme of the ELRC continues to increase in size and scope and enjoys a high demand for its courses and programmes.

The ELRC hosts two research Chairs:  A Tier 1 DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems, and a RU Chair in Environment and Sustainability Education.  It enjoys collaborative partnerships with over 50 partners across the world. Through these research and policy partnerships, centre aims to promote and encourage social scientific methodological innovation to produce knowledge of African education and social–ecological contexts.  At any one time, we have a diversity of research programmes on the go to which our Masters, PhD and post-doctoral scholars all contribute.

In support of this collaborative approach to knowledge-building, the ELRC’s Sustainability Commons has been developed as a space for social innovation, engaging the border zones between the academy, public sector and civil society; between theory and practice; and knowledge, learning and human agency.  Our research programmes contribute broadly to the Sustainability Commons and to Education and Social-Ecological System transformations. 

Since 1992, the Environmental Education programme at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 has successfully graduated 177 Masters scholars (with a supervision team of 2 for most of the time), and 53 PhD scholars with many of our graduates holding leading positions in the field nationally and internationally.

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