Collaborative community partnerships across education settings

Volume editor

Luiza O de Sousa

Volume editor

Mariëtte P Koen

Synopsis

This book, Collaborative community partnerships: Educating for sustainable development across educational settings, features chapters by scholars from various education fields specialising in sustainability. As the first volume in North-West University’s Community-based Educational Research Series, it focuses on transforming education through a participatory approach. The authors explore quality education across early childhood and primary, secondary and higher education by examining collaborative efforts among practitioners, parents and teachers. These partnerships aim to foster active participation in sustainable development.

This scholarly book provides empirical evidence on how collaborative initiatives can promote sustainable development. These initiatives encourage partnerships among community leaders, educators, learners, nongovernmental organisations, government and the private sector for lifelong learning and professional development. It highlights southern African experiences in collaborative education, aligned with the United Nations’ sustainable development goal of achieving quality education. The book demonstrates various research designs and methods applied to educational practice, from early childhood to tertiary levels, through empirical research and community projects.

The book, targeted at scholars, practitioners, and professionals in education and sustainable development, comprises ten rigorously peer-reviewed chapters, contributing significantly to the field.

Chapters

Preface
Partnerships educating for sustainable development across collaborative settings

Luiza O de Sousa, Mariëtte P Koen
Chapter 1
Incorporating education for sustainable development through community-based education in the Foundation Phase

Sandra Fourie, Lesley Wood
Chapter 2
Outdoor play in early childhood education for sustainable development: Parent−practitioner collaboration

Stef Esterhuizen
Chapter 3
The use of entomophagy learning resources to foster education for sustainable development

Melissa N Palmer, Barry Richter, Catherine (Cathy) Dzerefos, Anette Hay
Chapter 4
Stakeholder involvement in reforming a Namibian Physical Science syllabus through climate change environmental education

Wilhelmine N Iipinge, Luiza O de Sousa
Chapter 5
Embodied experiential place-based education: A possible map to expand the prioritisation for an environmentally literate and sustainable citizenry through life orientation

Pieter Swarts
Chapter 6
Project-based teaching, citizen science and education for sustainable development: A partnership for youth-centred teaching and learning

Irene Muller
Chapter 7
Online teaching for enhancing education for sustainable development and the sustainable development goals in the Foundation Phase in South Africa

Prosper Lunga
Chapter 8
Fostering inclusive early childhood through the pedagogy of play for quality education

Marinda Neethling
Chapter 9
Challenges experienced in early childhood care and education centres to promote quality education: The view of practitioners as co-researchers for sustainable development

Benita Taylor
Chapter 10
Learner-centredness, partnerships and PALAR: A triad of transitioning in a special needs education context for sustainable development

Marietha Malan, Lesley Wood, Mariëtte P Koen