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Distributed Leadership: A Potential Agency for Traversing Power Relations as Impediments to Curriculum Transformation and Implementation of Environmental Education Shabalala, Nonkanyiso Pamella; Hebe, Headman; Mnguni, Lindelani
Jurnal Penelitian dan Pembelajaran IPA Vol 9, No 1 (2023): Available Online in May 2023 (Web of Science Indexed)
Publisher : Department of Science Education, Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30870/jppi.v9i1.19500

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Decades after the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm declared environmental education (EE) an essential tool to mitigate environmental challenges, the implementation of EE still faces many obstacles. Accordingly, innovative, and solution-oriented approaches remain vital to enable environment-driven pedagogy in formal and non-formal education settings. This paper, which is located within the context of a case study that was conducted with the aim to investigate the application of distributed leadership in the teaching of EE in South Africa, reports on hierarchical power relations as impediments to curriculum transformation and implementation and, by extension, a hindrance to the infusion of EE in pedagogy. The results of this study suggest that hierarchical power relations in the schooling system hamper the involvement and participation of various stakeholders in key decision-making responsibilities, particularly, curriculum management. Accordingly, processes such as curriculum modification which are essential to enable the implementation of EE are impeded. The researchers of the current study argue that, based on its marked successes in various spaces, especially in the realm of education; distributed leadership could be one of the viable agencies to enable EE implementation. 
Uncovering Climate Change Education-enabling Themes in the South African Grade 7 Natural and Social Sciences School Curricula Hebe, Headman
Jurnal Penelitian dan Pembelajaran IPA Vol 10, No 2 (2024): Available Online in November 2024 (Web of Science Indexed)
Publisher : Department of Science Education, Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30870/jppi.v10i2.29026

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Environmental sustainability is perennially threatened by many challenges including drought, flooding, declining biodiversity, pollution, desertification, etcetera. Global warming, an offshoot of the greenhouse effect, is central to most of these environmental issues. Climate change education (CCE) has been touted as the main vehicle for the mitigation of climate change challenges. Accordingly, this study investigated whether the Grade 7 school curricula in South Africa provide for possible integration of CCE in pedagogy. The in-depth scoping review of the school subjects curricula taught in Grade 7 public schools classes suggests that, relative to other subjects, the Natural and Social Sciences provide greater opportunities for CCE. Accordingly, in this interpretive qualitative study, the researcher used content analysis to tease out some of the themes that could enable CCE from the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) which guide pedagogy in the two subjects. Aided by the abductive, deductive and inductive modes of extrapolation, the researcher found that there are several themes that could enable CCE in the Grade 7 Natural and Social Sciences subjects. However, the findings also suggest that there is, virtually, no guidance in the policy documents on how to infuse CCE in pedagogy. Furthermore, the literature points to the dearth of research in this area. Accordingly, the researcher recommends that the South African school curriculum be reviewed to accommodate the integration of CCE in pedagogy, and that scholars conduct more studies like this one, globally.
Co-Authors Mnguni, Lindelani Shabalala, Nonkanyiso Pamella