This research programme focuses on how communities learn to be more empowered and resilient in the face of new forms of social-ecological risk and change (e.g. loss of ecosystem services, climate change etc.).
This research programme focuses on how environment and sustainability education can contribute to and improve educational quality and relevance in schools, colleges and universities.
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development identifies transformative learning as a key focus for re-orienting society towards sustainability.
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Rhodes ELRC and its partners including Wits REAL welcome participation in the community of ‘green skills’ researchers, studying skills for sustainability and capacity building for environmental work.
This research programme focuses on how new sustainability practices are learned in workplaces. It also focuses on workplace learning systems that enable or constrain such learning.
Since Rob O’Donoghue’s 1986 paper entitled “Environmental education and evaluation: An eleventh hour reconciliation”, we have been exploring the relationship between environment, learning and evaluation.