Partnering Institute: 
Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网

About the project: The SARChI Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems aims to strengthen the relationship between sustainability science, social learning and sustainable development actions, and to contribute to education system development. This is to contribute to citizen and youth capabilities for participating in sustainable development action, and to curriculum and education system innovations that are based on transformative social learning principles, leading to articulation of boundary crossing green skills learning pathways (Lotz-Sisitka & Ramsarup, 2017).

Leading the CoP overall, the SARChI Chair will work with all partners in the CoP to synthesise and surface knowledge co-development, flow and uptake possibilities into education and learning systems, as these are afforded by the Sustainability Sciences for just transitions towards sustainability (Swilling et al., 2012). A key focus will be theory and methodology development. The Chair will also research learning network approaches (Lotz-Sisitka et al., 2016) to green skills learning pathways made possible via sustainability science, transformative social learning and sustainable development actions for clean water, climate action and ecological infrastructure development.

Lastly, the Chair work with CoP partners to surface, describe and share policy, practice and science outcomes, via various media, learning and science networks (held together by the Knowledge HUB), to bridge the existing gap and problems of mis-alignment between the Sustainability Sciences and Education system development, and inadequate articulation of green skills learning pathways, which provides the main motivation for the establishment of this CoP. This is significant as the education, skills development and life-long learning system impacts the lives of more than 20 million South Africans each day, with implications for current and future generations’ capabilities for living a good life on a degrading planet.

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