Environmental education and outcomes-based education in South Africa: A marriage made in heaven?
The infusion of environmental education into a new South African curriculum marks a historic shift from the past where it was marginalised from mainstream, formal education. Through the Environmental Education Policy Initiative (EEPI), environmental education was included as a key principle in the m...
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Environmental Association of Southern Africa
1997-12-01
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| Series: | Southern African Journal of Environmental Education |
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| description | The infusion of environmental education into a new South African curriculum marks a historic shift from the past where it was marginalised from mainstream, formal education. Through the Environmental Education Policy Initiative (EEPI), environmental education was included as a key principle in the most recent government white paper on education and training. This policy process provided a platform for the establishment of an Environmental Education Curriculum Initiative (EECI) to ensure that environmental concerns form part of the new outcomes based curriculum (OBE) for South Africa. Many members of the environmental education community have been actively involved in EECI activities and environmental education and OBE was one of the key features at the most recent conference of the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA). In this article we attempt to highlight the parallels between environmental education and OBE and raise a critical debate around the institutionalisation of environmental education in South Africa. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3903da391ef148d789041a13eed961b02022-12-21T20:09:03ZengEnvironmental Association of Southern AfricaSouthern African Journal of Environmental Education2411-59592411-59591997-12-0117Environmental education and outcomes-based education in South Africa: A marriage made in heaven?Lesley le GrangeChris ReddyThe infusion of environmental education into a new South African curriculum marks a historic shift from the past where it was marginalised from mainstream, formal education. Through the Environmental Education Policy Initiative (EEPI), environmental education was included as a key principle in the most recent government white paper on education and training. This policy process provided a platform for the establishment of an Environmental Education Curriculum Initiative (EECI) to ensure that environmental concerns form part of the new outcomes based curriculum (OBE) for South Africa. Many members of the environmental education community have been actively involved in EECI activities and environmental education and OBE was one of the key features at the most recent conference of the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA). In this article we attempt to highlight the parallels between environmental education and OBE and raise a critical debate around the institutionalisation of environmental education in South Africa.https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137441 |
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| title_short | Environmental education and outcomes-based education in South Africa: A marriage made in heaven? |
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