- Title
- Identifying needs and opportunities for local government environmental education and training in South Africa
- Creator
- Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Creator
- Hamaamba, Tyson
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/370991
- Identifier
- vital:66400
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/122739"
- Description
- Effective environmental management and public engagement with environmental concerns are needed for the attainment of sustainable development goals and socio-ecological balance in local government contexts. This vision is clearly articulated in international environmental policy frameworks and in South Africa’s national and regional legislation. However, policy and legislation fall short of identifying the range of a priori competences required by local government officials and environmental managers before well intended policy can be translated into effective practice. This paper reports on recent research into identifying the underlying competences required for better environmental management and the establishment of education and training processes for local government managers. The research draws on the notion of ‘applied competence’ put forward by South Africa’s National Qualifications Framework, and argues that greater attention needs to be paid to competence-based capacity building processes within local government departments if environmental sustainability and development goals are to be met. The paper draws on the researchers’ experiences of formulating a national level generic competence framework for environmental management, and conducting an education and training needs analysis for the Makana Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Early findings suggest that a broad range of competences all have a role in ensuring the capacity and effectiveness of local governments to better manage their local environment. The paper argues that these are significant for the development of environmental education and training programmes in local government contexts.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (16 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
- Relation
- Olvitt, L. and Hamaamba, T., 2006. Identifying needs and opportunities for local government environmental education and training in South Africa. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 23, pp.121-136
- Relation
- Southern African Journal of Environmental Education volume 23 p. 121 2006 2411-5959
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Copyright and Permissions Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Olvitt, Lausanne Laura (Assoc Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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