"Contextualising learning in Advanced Certificate in Education (Environmental Education) courses: synthesising contexts andexperiences"
Ingrid Schudel
Rhodes University
South Africa
Ingrid Schudel is Lecturer in the Department of Education at Rhodes University. Her teaching responsibilities include the Advanced Certificate in Education (Environmental Education), the environmental education elective, the
environmental education programme, and the professional teacher development course.
Cheryl le Roux
UNISA
Cheryl le Roux, is Professor in the College of Human Sciences, University of
South Africa. Involvement in regional and international environmental education projects have included the SADC Course Developers Network, the
Department of Education NEEP-GET project, the UNEP MESA project, and the
Higher Education Links project between tertiary institutions in South Africa,
the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
Heila Lotz-Sisitka
Rhodes Univeristy
Heila Lotz-Sisitka is the Murray and Roberts Chair of Environmental Education
and Sustainability at Rhodes University. She has co-ordinated research
for the SADC-Regional Environmental Education Programme and is editor of
the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education. She is also actively involved in supporting the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in southern Africa.
Carel Pauw Loubser
Unisa
South Africa
Callie Loubser is Professor in Science and Environmental Education in the
Department of Further Teacher Education at the University of South Africa. He is actively involved in the science outreach projects ensuring continuing professional development of practising teachers in South Africa, the British Council funded Higher Education Links project, and several environmental
projects in Malaysia.
Rob O'Donoghue
Rhodes University
South Africa
Rob O'Donoghue is Director of the Gold Fields Environmental Education and
Sustainability Unit. He is actively involved in the development of practical
tools for environmental learning and in research to clarify environmental
education processes. He has supported work on indigenous environmental
knowledge, situated learning, and questions of sustainability.
Tony Shallcross
Manchester Metropolitan University
United Kingdom
Tony Shallcross is Advisor to UNESCO on environmental education and
sustainability and has vast experience of projects related to educating for
sustainability in Europe. He lectures in the Institute of Education at Manchester
Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.