Dominant education models are often skewed towards individual learning outcomes, focused on cognitive gains and academic success. In this UNESCO Chair Lecture, Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka (ELRC Director) presents her research on collective, community-based approaches to sustainability learning and teacher professional development in Southern Africa.
It challenges educators to embrace culturally pluralistic and collaborative teaching and learning approaches underpinned by ethical values and the common good rather than a sole focus on cognition and traditional academic success. The presentation also explores how such approaches might advance ‘decolonial paradigms of learning and commoning practices in the Anthropocene’.
The talk was hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development based at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
You can access a recording of the lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f_rI_N8s34