- Title
- Developing Teacher Capabilities and Valued Functionings in Professional Learning Communities: Focus on Environmental Content Knowledge in Natural Sciences
- Creator
- Thomas, Kgomotso
- Creator
- Songqwaru, Zintle
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435234
- Identifier
- vital:73140
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928502241
- Identifier
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description
- This study explored how professional learning communities can contribute to the development of teachers’ capabilities and the achievement of their valued functionings related to teaching environmental content knowledge in the ‘Life and Living’ strand of Grade 8 Natural Sciences (NS). This is in the context of the Natural Sciences Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) which is strongly content-referenced and is committed to learning approaches that are active and critical, and to environment and sustainability content knowledge (Lotz-Sisitka 2011). The integration of environmental education in the school’s curriculum is of significance as it addresses global and local environmental issues by preparing and actively involving learners in the planning, improvement and protection of the environment for the future (Unesco 2012). The successful implementation of CAPS requires that teachers attain necessary subject content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for the integration of environment and sustainability concerns into the South African National Curriculum (Lotz-Sisitka 2011). Teachers are also required to have the requisite skills to implement pedagogical approaches that support environmental education.
- Format
- 13 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- African Minds
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Thomas, K. and Songqwaru, Z., 2021. Developing Teacher Capabilities and Valued Functionings in Professional Learning Communities: Focus on Environmental Content Knowledge in Natural Sciences. Teaching and Learning for Change, p.291
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the OAPEN Statement (https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23440)
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