Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

Positioning southern African environmental education in a changing context.

A discussion paper commissioned by the SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme, for the purposes of informing the Danida funded "futures research"

Howick /ZA

2004

1919991069

9781919991061

Some opening thoughts
Contents
Preface
On position(ing): The context of this paper
Overview of the paper

PART 1: ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
Threats to the future
Poverty

PART 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY
Responding to environment and development issues: Global Summits
.. Towards Agenda 21: A Programme for Action for Sustainable Development
.. Major achievements since Rio ′92
.. Reflections on the achievements since Rio′92: ′Gaps′ in implementing Agenda 21
.. UNCED and Education
.. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002
.. Achievements of the WSSD
.. The WSSD Implementation Plan and Education
.. Interpreting ′Sustainable development′ as orienting framework for action
.. The WSSD and the commodification of nature and life
Responding to the plight of the poor: The Millennium Development Goals
.. The Millennium Development Goals and Education
A response in Africa: NEPAD
.. A strategic vision involving broad and deep participation
.. Interdisciplinary responses, involving education
.. An Environmental Action Plan focusing on capacity building
.. Poor understanding of the relationship between education and capacity building
.. Are things as they seem?
A response from SADC: The Regional Indicative Strategic
Development Plan (RISDP)
.. The RISDP and Education
Aid (ODA) and Ideas
World Risk Society and epistemological uncertainty

PART 3: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROCESSES
Global sustainable development narratives and re-orientation of education
ESD narratives
.. The UNESCO narrative
.. A comment on the UNESCO narrative
.. The ′Education for All′ narrative
.. Education for All in Africa
.. Educational innovation, foreign aid and sustaining initiatives
.. The IUCN Education and Communication narrative
.. Southern African narratives: The SADC REEP and EEASA
CONCLUDING FOCUS
Some implications for the futures research
The UN Decade of ESD: 2005-2015
Environmental Education Processes and Sustainability
.. And finally

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06.04.2018