The Makana Regional Centre of Expertise

Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rob O’Donoghue and Di Wilmot
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Heila Lotz-Sisitka: Heila Lotz-Sisitka is a professor affiliated with the Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit, Education Department, Rhodes University, South Africa. Email: H.Lotz@ru.ac.za
Rob O’Donoghue: Rob O’Donoghue is associate professor affiliated with the Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit, Education Department, Rhodes University. Email: r.odonoghue@ru.ac.za
Di Wilmot: Di Wilmot is at the Education Department, Rhodes University. Email: d.wilmot@ru.ac.za

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2010, vol. 4, issue 1, 73-92

Abstract: This article deliberates the possibilities for Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) to become ‘experiments’ in social learning. The purpose of the article is to advance the broader research agenda of RCEs through reflection on the empirical research agenda of one RCE, Makana RCE in South Africa. As such it opens questions on how we might see RCE’s as morphogenic social learning processes (i.e., processes of social change). It provides an oversight of the key issues, educational foci and developing areas of engagement in the Makana RCE. These provide an overview of the ‘starting points’ for social learning in the Makana RCE. A model of social learning is also provided which seeks to engage the ecocultural nature of sustainability practices in the Makana RCE.

Keywords: Social learning; sustainability practices; social change; Regional Centre for Expertise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/097340820900400114

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