Partnering Institute:
老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Stellenbosch 

About the project: As a developing country South Africa faces multiple challenges. These challenges are complex, they manifest locally but also resonate with challenges on a global scale.

The challenges are the raison d’être of the  SDGs. Unprecedented levels of inequality, coupled with immanent ecological disaster brings the perennial existential questions of 'how should we live together?' with the curriculum question, 'what knowledge is of most worth?'.

The latter concerns what knowledge should be included in formal education programmes of schools, universities and TVET colleges. Moreover, given a growing body of knowledge being produced in the Sustainability Sciences (as reflected in this CoP), to what extent is this corpus of knowledge reflected in programmes at all levels and in all sectors of the education system?

Linked to this is the question of how Sustainability Science should be constructed, organized and  sequenced in education programmes given the complex, place-based nature of sustainability issues, and the need for skills development that will lead to productive employment in societies transitioning to a just green economy. But, the issues are deeper than those simply related to  curriculum design and outcomes, notwithstanding the importance of these. More importantly, is to ask how we might rethink the idea of curriculum, so that it is not a plan to  mplement but inherently a process of transformation that links places, people, knowledge(s) and skills. In other words, how might we conceive, come to understand and construct place-based curricula, that are not only concerned with curricular reform, but involve “the issue of human responsiveness and adaptability to the local and global dilemmas that now demand our attention, intelligence, and energy” (Gruenewald & Smith, 2008).

The research overall, will address the wider philosophical questions of what knowledge is of worth, and how might we live, key questions that shape any deliberations on education in the world today.

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