Oil, transport, water and food: a political-economy-ecology lens on VET in a climate changing world

Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; McGrath, Simon; Ramsarup, Presha

Title: Oil, transport, water and food: a political-economy-ecology lens on VET in a climate changing world
Creator: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Creator: McGrath, Simon
Creator: Ramsarup, Presha
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2024
Date: 2024
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/482648
Identifier: vital:78674
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2024.2320910
Description: In this paper, drawing on an extensive research project across three countries (VET Africa 4.0 Collective 2023), we produce an emerging argument that it is necessary to rethink and reframe VET logics and approaches in a warming future dominated by informality and mass unemployment. Currently, neither the formal VET college or workplace are adequately set up to provide the type(s) of VET that are in demand or needed for just transitioning and sustainable futures. We acknowledge the importance of political economy accounts in developing a richer understanding of VET, but suggest these are not sufficient for dealing with the existential and practical crisis of the climate emergency. We note that many scholars have sought to address this tension in the academic literature by adopting a political ecology account that reframes the theoretical and political challenge. This leads us to call for a political-economy-ecology account of VET. Although we acknowledge the limited nature of our approach here, we offer some thoughts for VET analysis with reflection on these theoretical issues applied to four cases studies from Uganda and South Africa of VET provisioning in oil, transport, water and food (which materially shape our cases).
Format: 26 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Vocational Education and Training
Relation: Lotz-Sisitka, H., McGrath, S. and Ramsarup, P. (2024) ‘Oil, transport, water and food: a political-economy-ecology lens on VET in a climate changing world’, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 76(2), pp. 281–306. doi: 10.1080/13636820.2024.2320910
Relation: Journal of Vocational Education and Training volume 76 number 2 281 306 2024 1747-5090
Rights: Publisher
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/terms-and-conditions)

Hits: 9
Visitors: 12
Downloads: 2

Collections

RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)

Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Distinguished Professor)

SDG 04. Quality Education

RU Department of Education

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format
View Details Download			SOURCE1	Oil transport water and food a political-economy-ecology lens on VET in a climate changing world (1).pdf	887 KB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View Details Download