Prof Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Murray & Roberts Chair of Environmental Education and Sustainability

B Prim Ed (UPE), B.Ed (Hons) (US); D. Ed (US)

Heila holds the Murray & Roberts Chair of Environmental Education and Sustainability at Rhodes University. She began her career in Primary Education but has since shifted her focus to Higher Education and Environmental Education. Apart from overseeing the research of Master’s and PhD students, Heila also serves on UNESCO’s international reference group for the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development, and edits the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education. Heila’s particular research interests include: social change processes with an emphasis on educational quality and curriculum transformation; educational responses to poverty, risk and vulnerability; and critical research methodologies.

h.lotz-sisitka@ru.ac.za