Green Skills Research in South Africa

This book proposes transformative, realist methodology for skills research and planning through an analysis of case studies of the changing world of work, new learning pathways and educational system challenges.

Autorentext

Eureta Rosenberg is the Chair of Environment and Sustainability Education and Director of the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Presha Ramsarup is the Director at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Heila Lotz-Sisitka is a DST/NRF Chair of Global Change and Social Learning Systems and a Distinguished Professor in the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Inhalt

1. Skills for just transitions to sustainability: An orientation 2. Green economy transitions & skills: Global and South African perspectives 3. Mining: A laminated, dialectic methodology for identifying not-yet-obvious green skills demand 4. Green skills for agriculture: A method for focussing demand analysis and prioritization 5. Surface coatings: Occupational analysis and green skills 6. Learning pathways into environmental specialisations: A boundaryless careers perspective 7. Transitioning into work: A transitioning process perspective 8. Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies 9. Framing sustainability policy Learning Needs Assessments 10. Green skills supply: Research from providers' vantage point(s) 11. Formative interventionist research generating iterative mediation processes in a vocational education and training learning network 12. Greening occupations and green skills analysis 13. Synthesis and elaboration of critical research methodology for green skills research 14. Green skills research: Implications for systems, policy, work and learning