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- Title
The development of education for sustainable development. Materials for inclusive education in South African curriculum settings.
- Authors
O'Donoghue, Rob; Roncevic, Katarina
- Abstract
From an opening standpoint that inclusion implies previous exclusions, this paper reviews the slow emergence of inclusive processes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the South African education system. It explores how the historical colonising process and modernist trajectories in the emerging nation state were exclusive and driven by interventionist forms of education while there was an uneven provision of education by race and for learners with disabilities. Today, national provision for special needs is being mainstreamed in new policies of inclusive education, shaping education provision with a broader inclusivity agenda. An emerging and more inclusive landscape for ESD is explored as co-engaged processes of transformation as an inclusive engagement of citizens intent on constituting the futures they want through deliberative processes of learning-led change. Here inclusive processes of social cohesion are strengthened and empowerment is promoted. The article reports two cases of learning materials for more inclusive ESD in South Africa. It describes how the broad scope of ESD and inclusion in South Africa developed around redress following the cultural exclusions of colonial history and the need for social cohesion as intervention-led processes for effecting social change.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; SUSTAINABLE development; INCLUSIVE education; DEVELOPING countries; SOCIAL cohesion; CHILDREN with disabilities; SOCIAL change; OPENING ceremonies
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1434-4688
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31244/zep.2020.01.04