- Title
- Formative interventionist research generating iterative mediation processes in a vocational education and training learning network
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Creator
- Pesanayi, Tichaona V
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/370575
- Identifier
- vital:66356
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780429279362
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279362
- Description
- This chapter addresses a research problem identified in the vocational agricultural learning system where there was a gap in vocational education and training knowledge flow from research institutions to knowledge users. The chapter develops a theoretical framework for dealing with the problem of ‘knowledge flow’ in vocational education and training settings. The problem emerges around the uptake and use of relevant research-based knowledge resources on rainwater harvesting and conservation practices for agricultural education and training focused on small-scale farmers and household food producers in South Africa. These resources, despite their contemporary relevance, were not being used in agricultural colleges or in the related agricultural learning support system. Drawing on a social ecosystemic approach to knowledge flow and mediation, the chapter surfaces five iterative mediation processes developed via a generative, formative interventionist research process over a five year period (Lotz-Sisitka et al. 2016; Pesanayi, 2019; cf. Chapter 8) that facilitated the development of a regional learning network which enabled vertical facilitatory processes and horizontal connectivities that impacted on farmers’ food production system, as well as the agricultural learning system. We illuminate key features of these as important for supporting knowledge flow within a regional social ecosystemic framework for skills development.
- Format
- 18 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H. and Pesanayi, T., 2019. Formative interventionist research generating iterative mediation processes in a vocational education and training learning network. In Green Skills Research in South Africa (pp. 157-174). Routledge
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