- Title
- Education for sustainable development in the Namibian Biology curriculum
- Creator
- Tshiningayamwe, Sirrka
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436223
- Identifier
- vital:73250
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-319-45989-9
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45989-9_8
- Description
- As a response to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Namibia has incorporated Educa-tion for Sustainable Development (ESD) into its education poli-cy. There has thus been a growing recognition of the signifi-cance of ESD across the school curriculum. However, of the various subjects taught in secondary schools, science sub-jects (especially biology) are often perceived as subjects that can make a significant contribution to ESD. Drawing on re-search that was conducted at three schools in Windhoek, this chapter will comment critically on the uptake of ESD in the Bi-ology Namibian Senior Secondary Certificate (NSSC) curricu-lum. The chapter reflects on the influence of learner-centred education in the Namibian curriculum, the challenges and suc-cesses of ESD integration in the biology curriculum and how ESD has potential to strengthen and expand policies on learn-er-centred education, helping to translate them into practices.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Tshiningayamwe, S., 2017. Education for sustainable development in the Namibian Biology curriculum. Schooling for sustainable development in Africa, pp.107-118
- Rights
- Publisher
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